I would point out that the vast majority of conspiracy theories fall off the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down, but that's exactly what someone w

I would point out that the vast majority of conspiracy theories fall off the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down, but that's exactly what someone who's involved in a conspiracy would say. If you believe we had access to the ART source code or were smart enough to glean large amounts of information about its implementation, you also have to believe that we were too stupid or inept to make use of that knowledge. The crown jewels of the ART source code would have been their specific implementation of the rete algorithm and there's no way you could look at CLIPS performance at that point in time and compare it to ART and come to the conclusion that we knew anything specific about their implementation.