Re: On the negative throught
Saying "I judged it necessary to fulfil our mission" in the leaked letter, covers a multitude of possibilities.
It could be a QA / testing short-cut to allow a subby to meet a deadline.
It could be agreeing to pay off a sexual harassment suit in order to keep someone key to the team in place.
My money's on something non-technical. Whatever it was, it sounds like it's about to become public.