re: #266 freetoken

Why? Could not someone have had just a few pieces of information, sent that to Gleick to whet his appetite and get him hooked?

But it’s not a few at all. These pieces of information would include the knowledge of existence of the Fundraising and Budget memos (which are explicitly mentioned) and the very specific details and numbers from all over those memos. There’s no question to me that anyone who wrote the memo did it with the help of these documents.

I’m sure, that some of these PDF’s might have gone to circles that are a bit wider than the Board and somehow could have ended up in the lap of a non-HI denier trickster who also knew Gleick and his m.o and decided to target him. It just doesn’t seem like the likeliest possibility even on its own.

And, as you already suspect Gleick of creating the juicy memo, and yet he denies it, I’m trying to figure out if Gleick really could have been foolish enough to take credit for the release of all the information and yet not be aware that would make him the #1 suspect for crafting the memo?

Let’s look at the variants then.
1. He’s innocent of fakery. Then he knows that he only has to answer for impersonation. This more or less fits together.

2. He’s the culprit.

2a. He’s the culprit who knows there’s no chance he’ll be caught.

In such a case it would be foolish to confess.

2b. He’s the culprit who knows that he will be caught because he didn’t use the anonymizing tools while trolling for the docs (or because of some other reason).

The best strategy in such a case is to come clean on the trolling and to make up a scenario in which he is innocent of fakery.