Quote Originally Posted by Johanna
I guess there are three options:

1) What he is saying is more or less the truth
2) He genuinely THINKS that it is true, but it isn't..
3) He's lying on purpose for some reason.

I think it's very hard to say which option it is...
I was too lazy to reply right away, and now I won't reply much either.

I just can't imagine how this delirium fancies could be "more or less the truth". And what does "more or less" mean?
Perhaps for a Brit or an American, or an aborigine from Indonesian islands the idea of Putin conveying menaces to someone through Irina Hakamada sounds verisimilar; if so, they don't have any idea about Russia, FSB, Putin, and so on. Maybe Putin doesn't have enough special agents for this job? Is he stupid, or completely insane? People who swallow what Litvinenko says don't even know who is Hakamada, most likely.
Also, if what he is saying is more or less the truth, can someone tell me any convincing reason why he doesn't name Listyev's murderers (not even in this interview, but in any other either)? As for me, personally, I wonder who it was. I think we all do. So why?
Also, how can an adult, a former FSB agent seriously say rubbish like "someone told someone, the second someone told me, so I can be a witness"? Doesn't he really understand how naive and stupid it sounds? If he were to be a librarian or postman, probably he wouldn't. But here, excuse me, it's another situation.