Always possible that he is dumb and deliberately lying.
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"?
Sounds like a quote from someone who is engaged in malicious activity.
Sounds like a something said by someone that understands people, that being "misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent."
Isn't this guy whose AOL account (yep, AOL) was breached?
you don't become a CIA director while being that ignorant of SIGINT