21 April 2019

After Forty Years

… and in the spirit of the season, this is still one of the most accurate depictions of Middle Eastern (not just Israeli) politics available for general audiences.

Perhaps the staffers at the Whitesupremecists House would benefit from a close viewing, as it has much more insight than they've demonstrated regarding anything in the region. And that song at the end will make great background music for reading the Mueller Report (redacted PDF). They're going to need to look on the bright side of life… even those who are too stupid, too ignorant, or perhaps both, to be convicted of perjury (a criminal offense which requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused knowingly swore to a material statement that he or she knew at that time to be false). Consider this guy.

Speaking of the Mueller Report, it has one significant flaw: The redactions weren't done by anyone familiar with redacting raw intelligence materials. One need not resort to inverse steganography to infer at least some of the material, and an analyst with more-detailed contextual knowledge could do even more. But that's for another time.