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That theory is incompatible with the theory that he's actually a deep-cover CIA agent acting to very publicly and internationally embarrass their rival department---the NSA---whom they feel has gathered too much power and overstepped its Constitutional authority.

Given the lack of evidence to support either theory, I choose to believe my conspiracy theory because I like it better. ;)

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This is ridiculous. Read The Human Factor by Ishmael Jones and see if you still think there's even the remotest of possibilities this is true.

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You can't trust a former CIA operative to be truthful about the operational deficiencies of the CIA! That book is just chaff thrown to confuse foreign intelligence services, luring them into a false sense of security about the CIA's imagined weaknesses...

(The fun thing about conspiracy theories is bending them to account for new facts with increasingly twisted, interally-consistent logic ;) )