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The paper calls the information "the most sensitive that could be imagined to be involved in any police investigation" and surmises that those mentioned could already be in danger.
The other, less charitable, theory surmises that just as W. has tried to equal his father and fallen short, so he'll find some way to choke in the presidential election.
All these are feasible surmises by the process of metonymy.
Is it now too late to track our surmises back to facts, to recover the missing pieces of Katie's story?