technically, it is an hypothesis, but seems plausible to me. minds greater than mine have probably been working many things behind the scenes, and minds greater than mine will be needed to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
i recall the bush administration saying in '01 that the war on terror would in part use tactics of misinformation to confuse the enemy.
I don't know if the story is plausable. But I do recall some democratic senators blurting out to the media, right before multiparty talks with N.Korea, that Russia intel had been working with the CIA to put up rad detectors all over N.Korea in secret. So possible. If the story is true and theory is also, then the Left is selling out US intel once again for votes.
And clearly, Kerry now qualifies as an enemy.