I have no doubt he's smart, but taking from your comment that in this arena, govn't software is often years ahead of private sector software, I don't for a single minute believe his patents are for technology he magically invented "on his own time."

I know the article tries to address this, but his "unique insight" can never (especially this soon) be separated from his knowledge of classified information and software techniques.

This is, IMHO, incredibly perverse.

Edit: clarification.