@DetroitDan @t0nyyates @yoyoel (a tentative observation is that individuals with intelligence agency backgrounds who speak or act publicly, especially when they do so after or outside the formal boundaries of their service, should be taken with particularly large boulders of salt. they sell themselves as knowledgeable insiders when, in my experience, they can be unusually unreliable fabulists. i'd be careful taking these entrepreneurs as representative of their former institutions.)