Its a very time-consuming and delicate process to go through records even when they’ve been properly archived. To review a ton of records that have not would take a very long time to do properly while protecting the documents. 2/
Plus it’s a head-fake. Personnel docs are going to be in the National Archives or Senate records, not personal papers of Biden, so the result would be akin to the bullshit Hillary’s server story. 3/
This has nothing to do w getting at more evidence and everything to do w prolonging the story in the media to keep up headlines, and create the bullshit veneer of impartiality. 4/
It gives false credence to the inevitable conspiracy theories we know are going to come from the far right and Russian bots. 5/
And to be clear, this thread is not judging Tara Reade’s allegations, or the seriousness of what may have happened. It is the political weaponizing of such issues and the media’s complicity in this by advancing distracting or phony ideas in the name of “transparency.” 6/
The media can investigate this issue wo enabling right wing fever dreams. But as that wont satisfy the right, I fear they’ll repeat the mistakes of ‘16 and become complicit in trafficking bullshit in the name of being “unbiased.” That’s tragic. /End
