Secondly, TallDave is right that someone in the DoD is vastly more likely to have sent the email, but it may not have been Boylan. This could be as low-tech as someone typing at Boylan’s computer when he forgot to either to lock it or log-off. In this regard, all evidence will show that the digital Boylan sent the email, but not the person. This version fits all the evidence and maintains Boylan‘s honesty. However, it moves the simple deception of Boylan’s ploy of just playing dumb, to an as of yet undetermined actor with a motive to conceal their identity and pose as Boylan for some inscrutable reason. Boylan’s fraud is incredibly small and understandable as opposed to that of this mysterious and unknown agent. Yet, the fundamental question remains: why go to all the trouble?

At this point, I’m going to invoke Occam’s razor. Boylan playing dumb to a blogger that proved himself in the course of this fiasco to have a degree of intellectual dishonesty is an adequate explanation for the events. Boylan being impersonated by someone for, as of yet, inscrutable reasons and deceitful means to write a completely factual email about specific issues to left-wing blogger is a more complex explanation. More people, more deceit, less obvious motive, therefore the “inscrutable deceiver theory” is less likely to be true. But, that is just my opinion, I could be wrong and look forward to any new or overlooked evidence people are able to find.

Regardless, Greenwald is a disgustingly dishonest person. The infamous sock puppeteer actually claimed to have been “professional and civil,” after all the incredibly nasty things he had said about our soldiers, and continued saying in the same post.

Really, it’s astonishing and dismaying that anyone takes GG’s drivel seriously.

I can’t speak for the US military, but my experience on another government network was that all their router ports were assigned static IP addresses, and each machine had to be set to use the appropriate address for the port they were plugged into – they weren’t dynamically assigned. Which meant that each machine could be uniquely identified by its IP address, despite the fact that they were on a private network.

As I said, I don’t know if the military does the same thing; but given that information leaks are a big concern to the military, that’s what they’ll be doing if they have competent network administrators.