We now know Steve Gill, and everyone else, was conned by Petruno, because Petruno could not have seen what he claims to have seen, that set off entire story.
The real story here is, why is our Conservative Internet Community so willing to believe a story that was so easily disproved.
We NEED more critical thinking, or we will end up chasing our tails.
You're right. And you can start by applying some critical thinking of your own to the AJC excerpt I posted above; it's also easy enough to apply that critical thinking to the whole article here.
I don't claim to know what did happen, but I sure as hell know what DIDN'T happen.