Yet you're still here making excuses for Mark Kay, running plausible deniability scenarios for him. As recently as last week, I believe, still doing his bidding.

You know the history here, a positive spin on these events is unwarranted.

"I know in my heart that in some of Mark’s interviews he did not come up with some of what he said. Maybe, just maybe, he was being lead."

"Could it be that Mark was only repeating what someone told him? Could someone have asked him to also announce the hopes?"

The man was CIO at Morgan, for goodness sakes, you honestly think he's being led around by someone pulling the wool over his eyes?