Quote Originally Posted by vacuum View Post
However in his case he has decades of intelligence experience, knows how the military operates from the inside, knows all about command and control, and is presumably non-reactionary, level-headed, rational, and objective.

In other words, both his experience and presumed character qualities mean that because he has vetted his information from his perspective and endorsed it, the evidence gains credibility rather than the endorsement taking credibility from him. Of course it's exactly the opposite for people biased against the whole thing.

His experience, from what he described, is taking arial footage of landscapes for intelligence. He says says he's visual....well so am I, so are a lot of people, in fact most are.

He could be the most rational person in the world, but if he is forming conclusions with false information the whole thing is moot.

You can't read all kinds of data into an equation based on blind assumptions you think could/should be true.