Federal authorities seized Rep. Ilhan Omar’s cellphone during a raid on her Washington, D.C. home as part of a criminal investigation into her immigration paperwork. Investigators issued more than a dozen subpoenas to her family members and are examining whether her family lied about her age when she immigrated in 1995.
Seized phones, a dozen subpoenas, and somehow this registers as a revelation. Anyone with a pulse saw it coming years ago. The only genuine surprise is the pace — slow enough to look diligent, late enough to be worthless. A birth date on a 1995 form. That’s the scandal. Meanwhile the real looting rolls on, uninterrupted.