12.26.2024

On bringing back Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte is credited with advising "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." Later a guy named Robert J. Hanlon replaced "incompetence" with "stupidity" and christened the admonition Hanlon's Razor.

All of which leads, circuitously, to this investigative report from today's Wall Street Journal…

Behind Closed Doors: The Spy World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak

The idea that the pandemic’s origins lie with a research facility in China was once labeled a conspiracy theory

 …which tells a tale of government flim-flam (and the maybe-not-malicious credulity of the press) and (you don't have to read very far to find this) also the pivotal role played by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) — the position our Mr. Trump has nominated Tulsi Gabbard to fill.

So yea or nay?

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