the day the circus came to town and held a public inqui

I am very sorry, though unsurprised, that the massive online archive of testimony from John Gomery’s now utterly discredited vanity parade has now been removed from the innertubes, because I would have liked to point to specific incidents of towering boneheadedness on the part of Judge Gomery and his cast of twits for posterity’s sake. The day the lead commission council ambushed Jean Chrétien with Elections Canada donation information that turned out to be incorrect and misinterpreted, as a single call to Elections Canada would have told them, for one example. The entire transcript of Neil Finklestein’s Olympian day-long suck-up to Paul Martin, for another. Alex Himelfarb’s coerced second appearance, in which the Clerk of the Privy Council was called back for no other reason than to contradict the testimony of the former prime minister, which he stubbornly declined to do while politely making plain his contempt for the entire line of questioning (“I was disappointed when the auditor general said every rule in the book was broken. I was kind of hoping there was one rule that didn’t get broken”).