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A great read. It's amazing how Aaron Barr completely believed his hunches even when his programmer said that the data doesn't backup his analysis. He is a business man trying to get paid big bucks from FBI for his hunches.


Sadly, were he rewarded with a continuing money stream, he would likely justify the innocent names as "collateral damage" as the money would have been a mark of success.

Aaron Barr fancies himself a modern-day witch-hunter, and it's good he was hoisted on his own petard.


Gives one pause to think about the attractiveness of the career "witch-hunter" when the witches actually do have magic powers.




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