I didn't say they were mutually exclusive; that is also a rebuttal to an argument nobody is making. I'm saying they're orthogonal to the question of who's responsible for leaking these NSA tools.
I think this subthread is pretty clearly about the predominant narrative concerning the NSA and how this article plays into that (regardless of who actually is "leaking" it), I was responding to the discussion around your statement of:
> "The NSA is impenetrable" is not and was not the prevailing narrative, to say the least.
