a miasma of thoughts attempting to say all things to all people.

What my the intention was was trying to put this into a context, rather than coming out with some kind of verdict. It seems to me it's all a bit more complicated than it's being presented; some of the actual facts as to what happened and what didn't happen aren't even clear, and we're seeing it through a media lense that always tends to distort and oversimplify everything. (As anyone who has ever been involved in a press kerfuffle can confirm; and as everyone who has ever worked in the mass media surely knows to be the case.)