Over at the website Just Security, they’ve been combing through the emails that have been obtained over the last two months since hearings ended in the House. Most of those emails have been released through Freedom of Information Act requests filed by various media and nonprofit sites. However, those official FOIA versions of the emails have been redacted so heavily that Sharpie stock probably got a bump. The fragments that survive certainly tell a story: a story of criminals criming, and covering it up.

But what’s even better is that Just Security managed to find sources for some of those same emails without their heavy coat of black paint. Those emails confirm that both the DOD and the OMB were completely aware that what they were doing was a violation of the Impoundment Control Act. Pentagon officials repeatedly complain and point this out. OMB officials acknowledge this fact … then go back to telling the folks at the Pentagon to clam up.

Simultaneously, the letters reveal that the OMB was taking a different tack when it came to concerns expressed by the Government Accountability Office. With the GAO, the OMB officials mostly played dumb and pretended that everything was on track. That sometimes required just misleading the GAO. Sometimes it meant outright lies.

Just Security’s glimpse at the unredacted emails also reveals something else: The redactions made to the official versions were not made because they touch on information that is classified or protected by some form of executive privilege. Instead, the site notes, the redactions show that “OMB is continuing its efforts to keep its knowledge of the Pentagon’s legal worries a secret, blacking out the portions of the emails where DoD officials voiced their concerns and where OMB staffers acknowledged them.” The redactions made to these documents were not made casually. According to The Washington Post, they were reviewed by OMB attorney Mark Paoletta, who “signed off on the delay of security assistance to Ukraine” and overruled career officials.

As Adam Schiff has noted , many of these are the same emails that the House Intelligence Committee attempted to obtain through a subpoena—but the White House is still refusing to honor that subpoena. And since Republicans in the Senate have endorsed the cover-up, it’s unclear that the OMB will ever hand over what appears to be crystal-clear evidence.

They knew they were involved in a crime.

The debated various excuses for their action.

They told Pentagon officials to help them in the cover-up.

That cover-up continues in the redactions made in response to FOIA requests.

At this point it’s hard to even say that the House should subpoena Paoletta and OMB official Michael Duffey. It should just go on to contempt … for the contemptible.