WHere you start determines where you end

Lois Johnson writes, in light of Barr's summary of the Muller Report:

"Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with, "secondly." Start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans, and not with the arrival of the British, and you have an entirely different story. Start the story with the failure of the African state, and not with the colonial creation of the African state, and you have an entirely different story."*

Start with evidence of obstruction and not the inability to establish conspiracy, and you have an entirely different story.
#ReleaseTheMuellerReport
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*Quote from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "The Danger of a Single Story." And yes, the power runs in the opposite direction in Adichie, but the functional point is the same.