And yet one of those two people, portrayed by the government as a right wing, white supremecist, militia-type, penned an eloquent defense of Iraq as his swan song.
Consider then that he may have been protecting "others unkown" rather than being a rat because he truly sypathized with the Iraqi cause, as his own words would indicate. "Lily White" may have also been protecting his sister from suffering retribution, should he have outed the identies of his handlers.
As I say, I would be open to genuine evidence on this as opposed to speculation. But his dad said nothing about this; nor did Nichols. Only this one letter.