The story told by Harry Reid to explain the serious injuries he received on New Year’s Day does not stand up to scrutiny. And now, the Capitol Police, which had a security team on duty with him in his Henderson, Nevada home, is refusing to release the internal reports it has on the timing of his treatment for injuries. Reid claims that the broken ribs and facial injuries were the result of an exercise band snapping back at him during a workout, in which case he would have been admitted to the hospital at a reasonable hour of the daytime, post-workout. However, if he was beaten by someone, those injuries could well have occurred in the late night hours. John Hinderaker of Powerline has been calling BS on Reid’s story, and in the latest chapter of his investigation provides a theory that it was Reid’s troubled brother Larry who may have beaten up the former Majority Leader in the late hours of New Year’s Eve.. To me, the weak point of that theory is that...(Read Full Post)