Lots of ink, but where's the beef?
I don't recall a story that has garnered so much media attention, while producing so few facts.
Sergei Skripal lived in a duplex, yet present or former occupants from the other side of the wall have never been interviewed.
Sergei's son died last year and may have left either $200,000 or 150,000 Euro in a secret bank account that Yulia has only recently gained access to. What did he do for a living, how did he die. Did he live with his father after his divorce?
The photos of Sergei and his daughter drinking together were not taken on the day they became ill. The furniture matches neither the restaurant nor the pub.
Sergei's wife died and a photo shows Sergei and Yulia and Mama at the duplex, but no reporter has tracked down her relations for a story.
Nobody is questioning Christopher Steele, although he was Sergei's Moscow handler, and lives nearby.
Nobody is questioning Pablo Miller who was the MI6 agent that turned Sergei and who lives in Salisbury.
No reporter is questioning other Orbis employees in Salisbury to enquire of Sergei's presence.
Were I a tabloid editor I'd be sending reporters and paparazzi in so many directions.
Interview someone who works in the restaurant, the pub, the neighborhood, his car dealer, his travel agent. Who were Yulia's friends in Salisbury, in England, in Russia.
Why no photos from the hospital. Nursed, orderlies, janitorial staff, fellow patients. Someone has seen them. Yulia has been up and talking for some time. Who has she been talking to, what has she been talking about?
Were did our heroic detective scurry off to? Why no information about how he stumbled onto the scene, what he did in the park, why he went to their house, and how his sojourn in the hospital went, and why he's keeping such a low profile.
Very damn convenient that Putin staged this just as Britain was staging a chemical weapons drill in the very same town. the "biggest chemical weapons drill ever" - in England of course.
Putin is so much smarter than the rest of us that the lack of evidence pointing his way is in itself incriminating.
Terry