I'm not talking about understand the technology, or understanding how a database works. I'm talking about understanding the data and the quirky, proprietary methods that exist in any organization that runs large databases. You have to understand exactly what the data means. And if you're just basing that on headers and field descriptors, you're missing a huge part of the story. You need people who are intimately familiar with the data and the processes to learn exactly what it all means. And they fired all those people.

All I'm saying is that we have no good reason to accept that this is a true and accurate depiction of the real story. We're relying entirely on Elon's word. But Elon has multiple, significant conflicts interest, and a vested interest in promoting this particular message.

As I said, I fully believe there is fraud and waste. But it makes no sense to me that Elon and pals didn't just assemble the data, then get an independent, professional auditor to do the analysis. That would have been a hell of a lot more credible than this dog & pony show. I'm certainly not arguing that the fraud and waste doesn't exist.