Doesn’t his position make sense if he believes that:
if there’s no organized fifth column, we should see some intermittent, disorganized sabotage, and
if there is an organized fifth column, we should see NO sabotage before some date, at which there is a devastating attack
?
Of course, I agree that it’s likely he would have made a different argument if he had seen evidence of sabotage—but as presented it seems his position is at least potentially coherent.
Doesn’t his position make sense if he believes that:
if there’s no organized fifth column, we should see some intermittent, disorganized sabotage, and
if there is an organized fifth column, we should see NO sabotage before some date, at which there is a devastating attack
?
Of course, I agree that it’s likely he would have made a different argument if he had seen evidence of sabotage—but as presented it seems his position is at least potentially coherent.