Interesting. If Ilya already signed the letter and wants to bring Sam back, who else on that board has enough power to resist? And early reports said Ilya was the main force too. So apparently he was played and used as a scapegoat for the real mastermind(s?).

This drama is incredible. If someone had written a fiction like this, I would have called it a very imaginative but cliched and unrealistic story. Nobody that high on the "smart" hierarchy would do something this dumb. But now it is reality... I don't know if I should be sad or amused.