Fair enough. FWIW, From the stories I've heard regarding DK's departure from AITC, I can fully understand why DK feels bitter about the certain parties and I think I would feel the same too.
Regarding your apparent cynicism - this worries me and the reason is that you're a professional...
So you had no contact with Sale about this prior to Sale writing the article? If the directors are as obscure as you say then I would have thought that the first contact Sale would have tapped for a bit of inside info would be the journalist that he knows and who ghost-wrote the book.
I may...
Maybe a journalist chum with an anti-Bloom/Perry agenda to push and a book that he ghost-wrote to publicise gave the story to Charlie Sale in the first place.