Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Waiting for Mueller

About this time tomorrow the redacted Mueller report will be released by Attorney General William Barr. Odds are good it won’t please anybody. The pundit class will then spend the next several days poring over its entrails trying to divine its essential meaning and the penumbrae thereof.

I predict what each analyst finds will be more reflective of his or her biases going in, than on what the report actually says or conceals. In this sense, it will function as a Rorschach test.

BTW, one of the smartest things I’ve seen written about it is that we scientists know, or claim to believe, you cannot prove a negative. Finding nothing doesn’t equal nothing existing, perhaps you failed to detect what was there. Watch Democrats fall back on this trope.