Heh. Todd Blanche says Ron Wyden's story is completely fabricated.

If only we had some sense, you know, of the credibility record of these two men, then we could maybe guess at who's most likely to be telling the truth.

@GeePawHill yeah, that's why I keep voting for Wyden. He's like a shaggy dog story in human form. Just the most amazing bullshitter.
@GeePawHill I was once scolded by no less than Mike “Godwin’s Law” Godwin for making such a judgment. (At least, that’s what I thought I was doing.) “Ad hominem” is a wonderful tool if you want to replace a useful heuristic with a more abstract “World of Forms” argument that may be unresolvable but has the virtue of being uneconomical.