re: Lying or self-delusion in spookdom?
"I kept putting him off because I wasn't going to share my documents -- but I did want his scoops. Unfortunately, I could never confirm them, so they were unusable. Finally, it dawned on me that he was simply fabricating juicy tidbits so he would have something to trade."
This guy should have fabricated some data, and fed it to this unreliable source, then watched where this data went.
The amazing part is this guy was almost willing to give up classified information. What a idiot. Hope he didn't work for us and if he did, I hope he's speaking from jail cell.