Your question #7--normalizing this behavior and lowering the bar is what I suspect and it scares me. All your points are spot on. The rape accusation--as ridiculous as it sounds--is the only one that might carry weight these days. But what is the angle? Simply to discredit all our history and things we thought we knew? Maybe--to look at the silver lining--we need a lot more declass into Hoover's FBI and Dulles CIA. Maybe that's what we need to start screaming for.