The costly cockamamie blether of Karlheinz Schreiber

Well, since Kinsella made one, I decided another summary was required. Looking at it, I’d venture to say that the credibility of Karlheinz Schreiber (and the competency of the ethics committee) have been all but shredded:

• L. Ian MacDonald - After four days of testimony before the House Ethics Committee, Karlheinz Schreiber has established that he's not only a serial liar, but a sociopath, in the sense that he casually ruins people's reputations and even their lives.
• National Post - We here at the National Post have a sophisticated device known as the Truth-o-meter...We’ve used it regularly in the past two weeks to measure the reliability of the tale spun by Karlheinz Schreiber as he testified about the worldwide conspiracy aimed at squeezing him out of Canada so he can go home and face the music in Germany. Pretty much every time Karlheinz opened his mouth, the Truth-o-meter let off what sounded like a rush of air, followed by a thump. According to the manual, this means the jolly little German with the trouser issues should be believed roughly as far as you can throw him.
• Vancouver Sun - Mulroney easily shredded what little credibility Schreiber had left after his several days of conflicting testimony before the committee with well-documented examples of earlier statements that effectively undermined Schreiber's recent allegations.
• John Crosbie - the selection process that led to Air Canada's purchase of Airbus planes was technical, legitimate, commercial and altogether bulletproof. It was striking that Airbus was hardly mentioned yesterday, as opposition MPs prowled around the perimeter of the Mulroney years like hungry bears around a campsite looking for garbage.
• Chantal Hébert - But there is not a single police investigation that has laid a charge against Brian Mulroney. The income taxman...woman (whatever) is not after Brian Mulroney. And at the end of the day, I am still not convinced that we are getting more than a peek into a tawdry private affair.
• Andrew Coyne - I think when we were watching the ethics committee floundering around I think it reminding us that a lot of our institutions of accountability in this country are clearly lacking. [...] The weakness of the committee structure, the inability (continually) to get to the bottom of these questions is clearly troubling. [...] We saw today that there were only three questioners in that room that had any business being there.
• John Ivison - Mr. Mulroney will triumph in the court of public opinion because he's up against Karlheinz Schreiber.
• The Star Pheonix - ...every word Schreiber has said has been aimed at misleading the public and constituted a desperate effort to remain in Canada. [...] In particular, Mulroney underlined Prime Minister Stephen Harper was not in any way involved in the case, even though Schreiber has sworn that he asked Mulroney to raise the issue of Schreiber's extradition with Harper.

As they say, there is always two sides to every Coyne...er...story.