Most of Congress is in that latter category, which means the current American political climate won't welcome a smoking gun. At the same time, journalists know that if they were the first to mention it then their careers would be destroyed by the hate machine, against which being right is effectively immaterial. We no longer have the kind of environment where Watergate-style investigative reporting can happen...instead, each fact is presented as an opinion -- either by itself or alongside a contrary opinion -- and is then forgotten.

And given that lack of perspective, even those who're actually paying attention are left asking "so what?"