[DBrow]

This could be just part of a big, coordinated media campaign. Plant the idea, “everyone in power knows” (except you, but you will voluntarily seek more of the story), build a buzz, generate interest and speculation (like we are speculating here), get people talking. Gently guide rumor and chatter.

Then pop your main campaign, having fertilized the ground, so that it will have maximum impact, when many people will have been helped into forming a pre-opinion. That way, there will be little initial analysis into the veracity of the main campaign.

It’s right out of Eddie Bernays’ playbook, and is the way lots of advertising (and campaigning) is done when you have time and money.

As for who the target is, I am not speculating.

[Izzy Dunne]

So, is Rosenbaum the perpetrator in your scenario, or just the mule carrying the load for his masters?

I know nothing about his history.