I love mi Patel Patrioto and I love mi Juan. Patel does a great job of piecing together the legal justification for running a shadow government. JOS keeps our spirits up through his stories.
But JOS is not just a good story teller. He clearly has the ear of a lot of insiders, and he may be the mouthpiece for some of them. Were it not for his inside contacts, it would take an enormous amount of research and imagination to assemble the tales that JOS spins, but even then it would be a challenge to respond spontaneously to interviewer questions the way he does. Whoever he is, he's real -- while remaining semi-fictional.
To me he is clearly not connected to insiders. One thing I have zero interest in is imagination, if you get my drift! When I want fiction I'll read LOTR or CS Lewis' space trilogy. I like to keep fact and fiction very separate. And - ymmv! No thought police allowed. Free thought.