I suggested twice, maybe thrice, that we should reach out to the people Belschaft has deposed. I also suggested double checking what Belschaft had done and inquiring into the SPSF intelligence programme. Farengeto also provided a specific list of inquiries to be made. It's all in Lubyanka.

If anything, we could've started by acknowledging that, however useless it may have felt, the law required us to investigate in good faith, rather than keep out already-drawn conclusions and ignore any other possible leads. We had a job to do.