So the question is was he lying then or lying now? I guess he admitted to lying then...so is he still lying? He says he was trying to trap you (evidently over several month period). You say he was lying to defend Russian hackers.
Based on the fact that I've seen GE admit when he was mistaken in the past he has more credibility then Anti-R a confirmed LIAR by his own admission.
Then I remember previous anti-R's posts and decide he was lying in defense of Russian hackers. When caught he admits to the lie but claims it was to trick you.
He truly is despicable.
There was no lying. Pay closer attention to the whole thread, and the punctuation being used. It really is possible to determine one's frame of mind when reading the post correctly. I knew he was stringing GE along. Of course, I also knew about Fyodor, and I knew that GE didn't, given his obviously exaggerated claims of security knowledge.
However, since GE was caught in this, he's been claiming "LIE!" instead of admitting he was caught in a sting that was obvious from the very beginning.
Look at the thread he linked to. There you can see another example of me trapping him, leading him long enough to make himself look bad. I finished that trap within the thread, citing applicable federal law to counter his claim once I was finally able to nail him down to a definitive statement (that was the hard part). I admit I did let the nmap one run quite a bit longer though. So you see a pattern of behavior, not of lies, but of trapping GE in his own ignorance.
Based on the fact that I've seen GE admit when he was mistaken in the past
We who have played with him for a while have seen it only once, after several of us forced him, and then it was only a politician-style semi-retraction.
When caught he admits to the lie but claims it was to trick you.
At the very worst it would have been my ignorance in seeing the name Fyodor and automatically believing he was Russian. People do make mistakes. However, I was the one who gave up the truth on my own volition, so you couldn't exactly call it a lie in the end. It was simply stringing along someone, playing to his paranoia. I admit it wasn't very nice, but by then I was fed up by GE's lies, distortions and libel.
Obviously, the first thread or one of the first threads he ever created here, he changed the title of the article to "Democrats ahead of Republicans on" something or other. Of course when confronted with that recently he denied it until I linked it, nothing he says is believeable, it's all in defense of leftist BS anyway.