yah. It's pretty obvious that the Page Program is just too risky and open for abuse. That's a separate issue from the obvious attempts to politicize this whole thing. I'm a betting man, and I'm betting we find out exactly who is behind all of this in fairly short order...
Unless they were saved in a system somewhere, and I doubt that, purported IMs cannnot be trusted. The people putting them forth are not under oath and why didn't they raise hell at the first instance.