What really bothers me about Armstrong's behavior is that in the recording, he's talking about how he doesn't mind people giving the information to the press.

What really bothers me about Armstrong's behavior is that in the recording, he's talking about how he doesn't mind people giving the information to the press. "I don't care if people leak information. . .I want to clear up the fact that leaking information or anything around Patch isn't going to bother me." That's a direct quote from him on that call. Today, he's claiming that the confidentiality of these meetings is paramount and that Abel was fired for violating that confidentiality. The issue is that seconds before the firing, he had explicitly given the opposite direction to everyone listening - that leaks were fine by him. Now he's attempting to play the other side. He claims that he learned a lesson, but from the memo, it's clear that he hasn't. Or maybe he's learned the wrong lesson: that's it's ok to be mercurial and to act on whims, just make sure that you backstop your actions better so that it doesn't make you seem so crazy. "I acted too quickly" . . .if I had told him to stop, waited a week, and then fired him for some made-up reason, no one would be the wiser to my crazy behavior.