I think so ... and now considering there must have been some noodling up front so that Hussein said what their plan was. There is appearance, in many of these things, that things happen “spontaneously” when, in fact, they are concocted, coordinated and manipulated.
Right. They know or suspect their communications are being monitored. It looks like they’re operating with the common understanding that the necessary communications will be made in a very public way. I’m thinking of Obama’s phone call with Isikoff and all those weird tweets from Comey, and some from Hillary. They seem like dog whistles to me.