Not to jump on you at all, but, who says "that the lack of response from IR points to something." IR is just not responding because, in my mind, she has stated the same thing to these individuals ad nauseam. What else can she say to assuage these individuals. She has better things to do with her time and so do they. What's that idiom that Cattdogg likes to use - "Where's there's smoke, there's fire." Well, in this particular case, there's no smoke and no fire. There is no fiction. And IR sees this and chooses to not reply.