Creative Speculation

You are apparently unaware of what's going on here.

This is actually a form of interrogation. They think they're interrogating me, pressing me, and 'shutting me down'. I have no problem with their thinking that. In the process, I'm extracting and putting on display their failure of reason.

Reason is purely subjective for them, so your reasonable approach will be rejected.

Like I said, they want it both ways: They want the video to be proof of bin Laden's involvement, but they also don't want it to be the proof that could be used to indict him because that would run headlong against a reality they don't like: The FBI does not consider the video to be 'proof' or in their words, "Hard evidence."

They will even go so far as to claim that 'proof' and 'hard evidence' are two different things... and I would agree. Hard evidence is a slightly lower bar than 'proof'. So what they want is proof without evidence.

Because of this conflict, their only course for resolution is to claim that an uncoerced video confession does not constitute 'hard evidence'. This flies in the face of decades of indictments and convictions arrived at through nothing more than video/audio evidence, and is simply insane.

Having exposed their insanity, my work here is pretty much done, but I'm hanging around to see how much more I can squeeze out of them.

Thanks very much for your suggestion, BTW. I agree that there should have been a more thorough investigation because there really wasn't much of one.