It appears that the sham will be a never-ending one, where if the first articles are worthless, they'll find another and then send that one over, then another and another. It's death by a thousand cuts, slowly whittling away any political support.
It's bovine scat because, as others pointed out, it was still dispersed even if it wasn't immediate. Looks like the GAO has been infected with Swamp Fever too.