I worried today’s Editorial Board would be so packed with names that people would stop reading after the third paragraph. I suppose that’s the risk I took in deciding to write about an actual criminal conspiracy involving the leaders of two countries and a Russian novel’s worth of minor characters.

Even so, I still worried, so I did what writers do. I revised. Well, added new material, in this case a paragraph that, I hoped, would turn the puzzle pieces into a clear(er) picture. Here’s that paragraph.

Good Lord, I know. All of this sounds like just another insane conspiracy theory. And normally, I’d heartily agree. But sometimes conspiracies are real, and we’re only now starting to see the strings form something close to a coherent web. Parnas’ attorney told CNN that his client met regularly with the “BLT Team,” a name taken from the the restaurant where it met several times a week on the second floor of the Trump International Hotel in Washington. The team included Giuliani, Parnas, Solomon, diGenova Toensing and Nunes chief aide, Derek Harvey, who acted as Nunes’ proxy.

If you haven’t read today’s edition, click here.

Meanwhile, let me know what you think. There are so many people involved!

—John Stoehr