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This will be exactly how the actual story gets blurred into meaninglessness. This version? No, THAT version. You mean the one before this happened or the one AFTER that happened? But there are questions as whether Comey knew before that happened that the version released BEFORE that happened or the one that became available AFTER that happened must have said this because THAT happened or if he knew whether he was going to testify before THAT happened. “I think it’s incredibly important that we focus on whether the version before Comey changed his underwear was available to the CIA or was it just the FBI. Because we all know there is supposed to be a firewall.” “Yes, Bob, but apparently the firewall that was instituted after 9/11 was in place before the firewall in place during 9/11 and leading up to 9/11 was entirely revised by the DNI or was it the FBI acting on the authority of the director at the time, who will be joining us later in the program and we’ll be sure to ask him if it was his concern that those things were taken care of.”

And this will go on for a week or more, establishing the existence of various versions and how could the FBI know, “as the Alt-right proclaims,” that one version is correct but another one isn’t. And don’t they have the obligation to investigate these kinds of allegations, whether it’s a Democrat or a Republican? Yes, they do, and it may be important to find out whether what we have come to know as “the Prague variation” existed while Carter Page was being interviewed because that would explain why Brennan was interested in Clapper’s homemade pastrami.

And you watch, this systematically descends into blithering meaningless drivel where no pronoun can be used, no “it”, “they” or “he”; no reference can be made to any anything without re-developing a complete reference chain of origin, nothing can be verified, nothing can be referenced without automatically spawning a different version of events. And so since nothing can be proven since the ten thousand different commentators commenting do not have the various versions but operate out of hearsay and supposition. In three weeks, nobody will know what the f**k anybody else talking about what up to now has been known as “the dossier” (but now in the public mind as “four different dossiers”) ever meant to anybody.