>Maybe the issue here is that the case isn't that strong after all. It doesn't need to be. It just needs to be someone. Imagine you're the head of a department

>Maybe the issue here is that the case isn't that strong after all. It doesn't need to be. It just needs to be someone. Imagine you're the head of a department and everyone up to the president is breathing down your neck about how this data made it out of your supposedly air-gapped system. Do you simply blame it on the Russians or Chinese, essentially admitting that a foreign intelligence service was able to walk past your security with all that confidential data? Or do you pick the weakest link among your own? Someone who will soothe superiors, can't really stand up for himself and will absorb all the blame?