If you're gonna do a coverup, at least lean into it.

What were once vices are now habi…well, they’re still vices, but they do become pretty damn habitual. From the Washington Post:

I mean, come on, people. Give us a little credit. Try a little harder. Lean into the cover-up. The Watergate crooks had Tony Ulasewicz, running from one phone booth to another, a trolley conductor’s coin dispenser on his belt, delivering the hush money to the burglars. The Iran-Contra scoundrels had Fawn Hall, smuggling incriminating documents out of Ollie North’s office in her lingerie and, in her own words, “going beyond the written law.” Those were bag persons with style. What we have here, at best, is a bunch of apparatchiks, from several government agencies, all simply waiting for their phones to get wiped. At worst, we have the most boringly obvious obstruction of justice in American political history.

Yeah, good luck with that. The dog has eaten all the homework and those oh-so-material text messages have been ozone’d by people who know how. It’s time to bring in the real experts.

The key to unraveling this whole business probably can be found In a small bedroom out there in the wilds of America where an enterprising 14-year old has found a way to recover all the porn his parents thought they’d deleted from his phone two weeks ago. The spirit of American innovation will never die.

Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976. He lives near Boston with his wife but no longer his three children.

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