[jjoonathan]

It probably wasn't Swartz's fault the servers were slow, but even if the slowness was unrelated he probably popped up in one of the queries they used to diagnose the system.

Or it was a conspiracy. Parallel construction has me freaked out too. I just don't think that it's the most likely explanation.

[Zigurd]

In light of the breezily incurious language about the person who supposedly "noticed" the supposed "slowness," I'd say it's one of those casual lies told to make a case look better and neater, and maybe hide someone who would be a troublesome witness.