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ALMOST all of it makes sense; certainly the stuff I understand does (there's lots of references that I don't), and this is basically a tantalizing trail of crumbs.

I'm not convinced they are that technical or with the NSA - I find it really hard to believe the NSA can't monitor RSS or newsgroups. If it's traffic, they can monitor it, unless it's been highly encrypted. Not being able to monitor is something a non-technical person would believe. It's still traffic, just in a different protocol. So I think we can write off NSA or techie.

I fall in with the GAO assessment - there's a lot of information here that would have run through GAO.

That said, the person MAY NOT know anything. They may like conspiracy theories and fancy themselves a modern-day Deep Throat. It's hard to tell, because we won't know until either (a) they deliver something key, or (b) we investigate and find nothing (which by itself still doesn't prove anything) or (c) we investigate and find it's totally correct.

Regardless, it's a lot of interesting things to talk about - I don't put anything past this bunch of crooks, so pretty much everything is plausible.