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http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/...n-by-a-thread/

So: how stands that slender thread after today? Answer: still there, barely, but fraying by the hour. No, the RCMP affidavit does not produce direct evidence to prove him wrong on this question. But it demonstrates, more clearly than ever, how finely drawn and ultimately irrelevant it is.

Whatever might be meant by Mr. Wright’s later email to a colleague, that “the PM knows, in broad terms only, that I personally assisted Duffy when I was getting him to agree to repay the expenses,” and regardless of the officer’s statement, offered elsewhere, that “I have seen no evidence to suggest that the Prime Minister was personally involved in the minutiae of those matters,” it seems clear that he knew a great deal more than he has let on. Which was, you will remember, nothing.

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/...tephen-harper/

Then there are the sheer number of people in the PMO who appear to have known about the Wright cheque, including (if Mr. Duffy is to be believed, a whopper of a caveat admittedly) Ray Novak, the Prime Minister’s current chief of staff. Former denizens of the Langevin Block say there is very little that goes on there about which the Prime Minister is not apprised. This would be one hell of a precedent.