Maybe to you it is. But that is your use of language. Actually it is exactly what I would say. If someone I knew had found the post with the copy of the letter and printed it out and given it to me - and I was then telling someone else, I would say "I was shown a copy of the letter" .....or "I saw a copy of the letter"...
Pointless discussion in the content of it - but really does show how differently people can interpret the same thing - without knowing who is right or wrong - or maybe all of us are wrong and the interpretation is something else totally
But here I am going to try to bow out of this discussion. It just makes me very sad that we seem again to be going down the path of attempting to destroy someone's reputation with no real basis, just on maybes. To me there is a difference between warning people to take care by saying "Please consider all aspects before you join a paid organisation - is it right for you and do you believe that the people at the head have integrity".... vs what is happening here. And yet that is exactly what has been done to Bryan over and over. Maybe one day we'll learn - hopefully not waiting until after we've destroyed a number of good people who are genuinely trying to help others and thereby ruined our own chances of achieving what we are after. I personally have no doubts about Billy's integrity - just as I have had no doubts about Bryan's. Does that mean they will be successful - no. Could I be wrong - yes, that is my opinion. But even if I didn't feel it was honourable, I hope I would just choose not to be involved and if I did feel the need to say something it would either be based on real fact, or be a very general statement that slandered nobody.