Where there’s smoke, indicates at least a smoldering fire inside the walls somewhere.
So the firemen have to keep hacking holes in the inside walls, until the source of that smoke is either extinguished or exposed to the open.
This is not the first time that obfuscation, dissimulation and misdirection have been used to shift attention away from uncomfortable facts. The steps being taken are eerily similar to the efforts to resist the investigations and revelations made by Senator Joe McCarthy some sixty years ago.
The conspiracy reaches some very high places. That makes what is going on no less of a conspiracy.
I do know there’s a whole lot of people with a vested interest in seeing that the elusive long form never sees the light of day. And it’s not just democrats.