after all of the buckets and buckets and vats and factories full of ink devoted to this supposedly earth-shattering scandal, we have reached the end and it turns out, there was nothing there. as "the washington post's" write-up concludes, quote, the report appears to represent a final and anticlimactic chapter in a controversy that overshadowed the 2016 presidential campaign and exposed hillary clinton to fierce criticism, which she later cited as a major factor in her loss to president trump. so that happened this weekend. you might not have noticed on page a-16 of the front section of the smallest paper of the week on saturday. you might not have noticed the blanket coverage that didn't exist of the ending of this scandal that was the most important thing, according to the media, in 2016, that you needed to know about hillary clinton and her candidacy. so part of what we need to reckon with here is about