Painter Greg Stone on bringing a Wall Street Journal reporter to see a Mark Lombardi drawing called “George W Bush, Harken Energy, and Jackson Stephens ca. 1979-90 (5th Version)” :

“He was riveted—he knew every character. He stood there poring over it for forty minutes murmuring ‘Oh my God…’ Then he went back to his office and looked it up—the Journal had reported on the link between Bush and Osama bin Laden, and Mark probably got his information from that article. But my friend said he hadn’t fully understood the implications until he saw it all laid out that way.”
— from “Toward a Diagram of
Mark Lombardi,” Frances Richard