re: #58 karmic_inquisitor
Case 2: playing oneself off as a member of one group (and authoritatively covering it) while scheming with “the other” group to bring about the first group’s downfall.
I didn’t really follow Weigel’s Right Stuff blog too closely, but did he ever really suggest he was a a fellow traveller with the subjects he was covering? My impression was that he was something like a socially liberal libertarian.