1. Hugs and chocolates to everybody in HP fandom. It does sound like a traumatic reveal, and I hope things will heal up OK.
2. If my entire flist turns out to be sockpuppets for somebody, can I marry/sell myself as an slave to/pledge to follow in world conquest said somebody? Because she/he would have to have an IQ of 200something, the porn skills of a Bene Gesserit and an in-brain link to Wikipedia to be all of you at the same time.
*facepalms* It's not just the utter insanity of the statement. It's the utter insanity of it being redacted in the first time, and then passing by who knows how many layers of internal reviews, editors, etc - with nobody saying "wait a second, do you realize how bad this will look?".
I'm not an american, but I *so* want to believe that there are more brains in the Pentagon than this suggests. Because, really, if the world needs something, is smart, coolheaded, rational people in the Pentagon.