My question is: Barzini and the Tataglias would have needed commission approval to hit Vito. The fact that the other families don't join in against Sollozzo and the Tataglias seems to point to the fact that they did have commission approval for the hit.
Good question, and it should have sent a signal to Sonny and Tom that Barzini was mixed up in all of this...after all Tattaglia was a pimp who could have never outfought Santino.