How does this justify extortion? Serious question.
If you're willing, how can you be extorted?
Digging up some past quote to somehow justify extortion is not very genuine.
He was piling pain into Theil but now the shoe is on the other foot his tough talk has a different tune.
He should have supported Peter / Hogan against the "everything you do in private is in the public interest" mentality. Especially when he owns a newspaper and a media network!