I don't want to bury you in some dreary repeat wall of text so I sort of combine-replied to you in the response to the upthread poster. As to the quality of hi

I don't want to bury you in some dreary repeat wall of text so I sort of combine-replied to you in the response to the upthread poster. As to the quality of his choices, I think that's the actual interesting thing - not whether we can come up with some semi-plausible theory for them. Are his choices a part of some grand strategy (like the article we're discussing seems to suggest) or are they haphazard? To me, the evidence so far seems to strongly point to 'haphazard', which is very bad news both for him personally and for the cause of civil liberties which he claims as his motivation. I'd love to be wrong about this but not quite to the point where I leave my critical faculties in my other pants.