Dozy:
Don't shoot the messenger!
I wasn't. It was just a little joke, since we have a "censored" emoticon. Regardless, if you are "the messenger," you're delivering fact. But in this case, it was opinion, not fact.
And, thanks for the lecture; I'm well aware that BEA is not technically a private entity, but its processes and machinations are, by definition, private, and that's what I meant.
As for the subsequent reprinting of Chris Scott's diatribe, I didn't like it the first time and I like it even less this time. It's full of uncharitable characterizations and motives-not-in-evidence as to those of us who feel that something may be withheld. Just for one example: "The truth is that no degree of revelation would silence their accusations of tampering of the data..." Nonsense.