Interesting insights. I absolutely believe his superiors saw him as a useful idiot. There's a whole lot of useful idiots out there who have no clue, and really do need a one way ticket to Gitmo.

I still think they were throwing him a few bones on the side. Could have been almost anything though - money, sex, drugs? Unless you are right about him being a hero worshiper, and some of the side benefits came from name dropping.

Anyway, not arguing with you. More like a bit frightened at the ramifications. How many more like him are out there doing the devil's bidding for next to nothing, with no regard for law or ethics, and fully convinced that ruining people's lives for the cause is fully justified? Which is why I want to see crimes like ballot harvesting treated as a crime of treason as much as anything the Clintons or Bidens (et al.) have done.