Agents raided her home over her father's old paperwork; reporters only ask if she married her brother.

…(cont) The window after that had the Washington Examiner open, dated 22 September — the rumor had come back around, the paper said, after senior administration officials, including the Homeland Security Secretary, Markwayne Mullin, indicated a fraud case was coming. That window sent me back to the window I'd started at.

I never did get the car paperwork sorted. But I got the rest of the story the same way, secondhand, from people whose actual job that week was something else.

Here's what I've got, in order, off what they handed me. On 12 October, federal agents searched Representative Omar's home. Every account I've been given says the stated subject of that search was paperwork her father filled out — decades old, from when she was a child. I want to hold onto that, because I'm going to come back to it.

This week it moved twice. The Guardian had her saying she's moving out of the Washington house, because the address is public now, and she has kids who visit, and people have been tracking them. The BBC had the inventory: more than a dozen items carried out that morning, cell phones, notebooks, the record says. And on the same day, 22 October, two papers — the Daily Caller and the Washington Examiner — put the direct question to her, on the record: did you marry your own brother. Both ran back the same four words. Not to my knowledge.

I'm sorry, I keep going back to that. The first side of it is just the date — both papers ran it the same Thursday, within the same news cycle the Guardian had her packing boxes.

I apologize, I'm going back again — the second side is the count. Two separate mastheads, one answer, word for word. That's as far as the arithmetic goes on what's in front of me.

I keep returning to it, and I'm sorry, but here's a third side: more than a dozen items left that house on 12 October over paperwork her father signed before she could legally sign anything herself. Not one account I've seen says the warrant named a marriage.

Twelve, same as the dozen the BBC says left that house in cell phones and notebooks.

One more time, and then I'll stop apologizing for it. The search warrant's subject, every outlet agrees, was a form. The question reporters have put to her, on camera, is not about a form. Which one has she actually answered?

Hold on — one more thing, and then I'll let you get back to your evening. When the dozen items were already on their way out her front door, and somebody finally got around to asking her, point blank, which four words came back?

Not to my knowledge.