You are going all over the place, so there is not much I can reply to. I appreciate that they committed a federal crime and would be happy as a clam to see them behind bars on account of it. Your reference therefore has no application to me.

You have no idea what, if anything, was on the scuttled tapes. It could all be innocuous testimony, going nowhere, proving nothing. I'm not even saying that is so---but I am saying that even a nothingburger would be deadly to their narrative and they would suppress it. In fact, the more I think about it, the more likely it seems to me that it would be so.

I'm defending nothing. You are playing with fantasy figures in your head. But go ahead, bay at the Moon, and get totally cranked out of shape if these tapes do not reveal your fondest wishes.