That is such a load of ......
If you say it is?
It's not like it is unknown that certain people will be taking that type of information for their own motives. More reason to keep those conversations as conversation and not memorialized in a letter. And now, once that bottle is opened the fix is to keep the Membership in the dark? Hardly.
If something has become or became too sensitive for some to handle, maybe.
That entire situation was a charade and you're right, it was "well choreographed and fallen for by unfortunately naive individuals," except those naive individuals have yet to realize they fell for it.
Perhaps but only time will tell who are those naive and who are not? Can certain individuals though if they come to find out it was them who were the naive one's admit it? That's something I'd like to see.
...and if you want to believe you are correct or that the position taken by the leadership is correct then you are condoning the elimination of information in order to try and stop an individual and his attempt to manipulate that information...well, guess what. If that is true, then that individual has won and he dictates what another 20,000 Members receive...and he'd also be correct that there needs to be a change. Either way, the Members lose.
Debatable. Wikileaks and Julian Assange did an awful lot of damage didn't he?