Richelieu was right, you can always hang an honest man by his own words. An oily evasive dishonest prick is usually more careful about what he says than an honest man.
Confirmation bias isn’t the only major bias that humans are prone to, and just think: every single cognitive bias forms a spectrum with “rational” at one end, and “insane” at the other. The extreme end-stage of confirmation bias, where no evidence can be seen as anything other than confirmation is called “delusion”.
I think what we just saw here was someone’s life being all fucked up by a bunch of insane people with guns. And the fact that most people will re-cast this as “the FBI made a mistake and were a bit stubborn about admitting it” is truly alarming.
