Will someone just put Kory out of his misery?

And the verdict is (emphasis leg-humpingly added):

... former FBI agent Bruce Koenig, the sound expert Mr. Harper hired to prove his allegations, submitted a report dated Friday to Mr. Harper's lawyer, which also had to be sent to the Liberal lawyer Chris Paliare.

In the report Mr. Koenig concluded that the first part of Mr. Zytaruk's interview with Mr. Harper, which contains the key portions that the prime minister has contested, was intact.

The second part, beginning roughly one minute and 41 seconds into the tape, was a new recording that was made over the final part of the original recording, he said. But the first crucial minute and 41 seconds had not been altered.

Mr. Koenig reported that the tape “contains neither physical nor electronic splices, edits or alterations, except for the over-recording start that erased and replaced the end of the first part of the designated interview.”

For which there is, of course, one and only one obvious and inescapable conclusion:

Kory Teneycke, a spokesman for Mr. Harper, maintained that the findings do not undermine the prime minister's case – and in fact can be used to buttress Mr. Harper's claims.

In other news, Teneycke claimed that the recent, spectacular Canadian financial meltdown and $25 billion bailout validates the Conservatives' prudent, fiscal stewardship, and he only wishes the bailout amount could have been larger to prove his point even more.

BY THE WAY, it's not clear what that infantile buttfuck Teneycke is crowing over when he squeals with glee over some sort of vindication. Is it that it's been established that part of the tape was taped over with a later interview? But that's not news -- we've known that for months:

Koenig, who also performed an authenticity analysis of the Linda Tripp telephone recordings in the investigation of former U.S. president Bill Clinton, reported irregularities in the copy tape and portions where an earlier recording had been taped over, ...

So the taping over is old news, and it's not what anyone cares about. But that doesn't stop Teneycke from fabricating shit out of thin air, then pretending it's somehow relevant.

Jesus, what a weaselly little shit.