Thanks. Now having read about what went down rather then trying to put it together from comments, to me the best guess is the company / CEO was just going tho

Thanks. Now having read about what went down rather then trying to put it together from comments, to me the best guess is the company / CEO was just going though the motions / churning and had one or two other people actually in mind from the onset. I'd probably not use the term lie though, bullshitted, and blowing smoke in someone's face is more to the point in regard to what was more probable in that interview charade. The only other half reasonable assumption is there's a lot of politicking going on between various department levels, and the CEO knew fairly quickly George was a threat to whatever machinations where in the wind ... or was just too clever by half.