Globe buries lede!

But l'affaire Stevie (what did she know and when did she tell the RCMP she knew it?) is just the first course, the amuse bouche. The real meal is buried in about paragraph 14 of the Globe's second story:

Mr. Greenspan said it will eventually emerge that top figures in the Liberal government approved the investigation of Mr. Mulroney, knowing full well it was being launched based on information from an anonymous journalist.

Now the backfill. The said Mr. Greenspan is the eminent and indeed omnipresent Eddie Greenspan, Karlheinz Schreiber's lawyer in the Eurocopter proceedings, which (sigh) went on in secret for months before their existence was revealed. (Secret trials: in how many ways does our system need reform?) It was in those hearings that, as we now learn, Agent Cameron was prepared to emerge from deep cover to testify, but only "for the purpose of the prosecution of Brian Mulroney." And Eurocopter, another case of alleged influence peddling (or attempts at same) in the awarding of Canadian aerospace contracts, leads us inexorably back to the Airbus affair, and the investigation of Mulroney.

"We are at the front end of what will ultimately prove to be an incredible scandal," Mr. Greenspan said yesterday. " . . . I think we have to get to the bottom of it."

Add that one to the pile.