Ho ho Gary.
Glad we can get on the same page.
Rather than just a fools acting as fools do when they open the purse strings of any public agency to the trial lawyers. I suspect that is of no concern to Shrill and company I have read this theme n Sci fiction a time or two . It's a story about a high level of government employee at the top of his career with no chance of going down in history as anything other than another bureaucrat. But by chance and a willing news media on the prowl for any new victims Mr Shrill and company see a last chance for that fame and footnote in history  by the tried and proven method of trial by public shaming to prove they are worthy heroes of the unnamed victims of the professors vicious attack . There by earning themselves the desired place in history for now and forever. 
Does that work for anyone ?