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[irishelk]

Jim used twelve blank pieces of paper to gain an immense amount of power. It took less than fifteen minutes.

[GalFisk]

Power: political? Financial? Religious? Supernatural? Electrical? Mechanical? Military? Mass-medial? Did he become influential? Famous? Jim: H? A? M? Was anything drawn or written on any of the papers during the 15 minutes? Was anything hidden revealed? Is a scam relevant? A magic trick? Did he use the power for good? Evil? Both? Neutral? Nothing? Relevant? Did the power last for more than 15 minutes? Could he have used cloth instead of paper? Pergament? Papyrus?

[Earnest]

Jim = HAM? Did he collect the pieces togheter? Glued them together? Brought them somewhere relevantly? If so publicly? Secretly? Against the law? Did he commit a crime? Show them to someone? Did the twelve pieces belong to different pieces? Belonging to different periods of times? To newspapers?
Were there writings/paintings on the pieces? Signatures? Are voting cards relevant?

Did the 12 pieces belong to different people? Could they be considered independent one to the other?

Power = power of life or death?

[Balin]

Is the size of the papers relevant? Are they all the same size? Are they smaller than a dollar bill?

[irishelk]

GalFisk

Power: political? Thisish. Financial? Quite possibly. Religious? Supernatural? Electrical? Mechanical? Military? Mass-medial? No to rest (or not relevantly).
Did he become influential? Yes. Famous? Yes. Jim: H? A? M? Y/Y/Y. Was anything drawn or written on any of the papers during the 15 minutes? Yes. Was anything hidden revealed? No. Is a scam relevant? DOYD of scam, but I'd say yes. A magic trick? No. Did he use the power for good? Evil? This. Both? Arguably you could say good, too. Neutral? Nothing? Relevant? Not actually relevant to the puzzle, but might help.
Did the power last for more than 15 minutes? Yes. Could he have used cloth instead of paper? No. Pergament? I had to look that one up! Yes. Papyrus? Yes.


Earnest

Jim = HAM? Yep. Did he collect the pieces togheter? He generally kept them together, yes. Glued them together? No. Brought them somewhere relevantly?Yes. If so publicly? Secretly? This. Against the law? Yope. Did he commit a crime? I think technically no. But you could probably argue it in court. Show them to someone? Not relevantly. Did the twelve pieces belong to different pieces? Yes, they were twelve separate pieces, never connected. Belonging to different periods of times?No. To newspapers? No.
Were there writings/paintings on the pieces? At some point. Signatures? At some point! Are voting cards relevant? No.

Did the 12 pieces belong to different people? Noish, but maybe explore. Could they be considered independent one to the other? Yes.

Power = power of life or death? Hard to say. Probably not that extreme.


Balin

Is the size of the papers relevant? Not really. Are they all the same size? Yes. Are they smaller than a dollar bill? No.


Great questions, all--this might go quick.

[Earnest]

Did he make them sign to someone relevant? All to different people? If so, do the 12 belong to a council? Were them decision makers? Did they sign all together? At the same moment? In the same place? If not, all to the same person? An influential one? Autographs relevant? Did someone signed the blank papers? I mean...were the papers completely blank when signed? Did he sign the papers himself (and maybe someone noticed him doing it and assumed he was an important person)?

Were the only writings the signatures? Did the signatures make something official? An act? A law? A change in power? Carbon copies of signatures relevant (e.g. he hid a document under the paper) ? Cheques (hope it is correct)? Are money involved?

Were the pieces of paper falsified? Could the pieces of papers be considered official documents?
Brought them somewhere relevantly?Yes. Secretly? This. Against the law? Yope. ---> did he bring them in the relevant place after the signatures? Before? To make the signatures? To meet the people that should have made the signatures? Was it illegal to: go in the place? Go in the place with blank papers? Put the papers somewhere? Is a box with his name relevant? Resignations of someone relevant?


Did he collect the pieces togheter? He generally kept them together, yes ----> do people know? Could anyone have done the same? Relevant Jim's job?

Did he gain an immense amount of power soon after the 15 minutes? After years? Days? Months? Hours?


WAG --> Was a picture taken? If so, maybe Jim sold the pictures to media to announce a false news (e.g. he announced that something was officialize and offered as a proof the picture of the people signing the papers)

[irishelk]

Earnest

Did he make them sign to someone relevant? No, they don't sign "to" anyone. All to different people? But there are different people involved. If so, do the 12 belong to a council? Yes. Were them decision makers? Yes, not really relevant.
Did they sign all together? At the same moment? In the same place? Yes, same time or close to it. If not, all to the same person? No, not signing to anyone. An influential one? Autographs relevant? In the sense of signatures, yes. Did someone signed the blank papers? Yes. I mean...were the papers completely blank when signed? Yes. Did he sign the papers himself (and maybe someone noticed him doing it and assumed he was an important person)? No.

Were the only writings the signatures? Yes. Did the signatures make something official? An act? A law? A change in power? Carbon copies of signatures relevant (e.g. he hid a document under the paper) ? Cheques (hope it is correct)? Are money involved? No to rest.

Were the pieces of paper falsified? Yope, maybe explore. Could the pieces of papers be considered official documents? Noish, but...

Brought them somewhere relevantly?Yes. Secretly? This. Against the law? Yope. ---> did he bring them in the relevant place after the signatures? Before? This. To make the signatures? To meet the people that should have made the signatures? No. Was it illegal to: go in the place? Go in the place with blank papers? Put the papers somewhere? No to all, I might have misunderstood--there is something illegal-ish going on, but going to the place with the papers is not illegal.
Is a box with his name relevant? No. Resignations of someone relevant? No.


Did he collect the pieces togheter? He generally kept them together, yes ----> do people know? Some do. Could anyone have done the same? Probably not with this level of success. Relevant Jim's job? Might help you.

Did he gain an immense amount of power soon after the 15 minutes? Yes. After years? Days? Months? Hours? The power he gains from the papers happens right after the fifteen minutes.


WAG --> Was a picture taken? No. If so, maybe Jim sold the pictures to media to announce a false news (e.g. he announced that something was officialize and offered as a proof the picture of the people signing the papers) But this is OTRT.

[Earnest]

Can we assume modern times? Relevant the exact amount it took? Was all the time employes to sign the papers? Were the signatures used to autenticate documents? Were the 12 blank pieces than glued on relevant documents? Did the 12 previously signed other papers? Blank ones? Are game shows relevant? Magic shows? Is Jim a magician? Is counting papers relevant? Making them appear somewhere?

Did Jim wear webcams? Invisible ink relevant? Were the 12 blindfolded? In a dark room? Were the 12 condemned? Did they sign their responsibilities? Is their amount of power inversely proportional to the amount of power of Jim? (The higher thei power the lower the power of jim). Are the 12 papers bigger than a standard A4 sheet? After the signatures, were the papers put in an archive? Shown to someone? Publiced? Printed? Put on newspapers? Was only the signature displayed? Do people know that the sheets were blank?

Relevant how the 12 were convinced to sign the blank papers? Did they fully understand the consequences of their signatures? That they would have give Jim a certain amount of power? The amount of power he effectively gained? Did they sign in front of jim? In front of someone relevant? In front of a jury?

Did Jim ask the signatures in first person to each one of them? Was anuthing relevantly pressed on the blank papers after the signatures were made? If so, official documents? Transfer of ownership? Rights? Is a transition going on?

Were the 12 memebers of a private company? Governament? Other institution? Football team? Is music relevant? Are the 12 part of a jury?

[irishelk]

Earnest

Can we assume modern times? Yes. Relevant the exact amount it took? Of time? No. Was all the time employed to sign the papers? Yes, or most of it. Were the signatures used to autenticate documents? Yesish. Were the 12 blank pieces than glued on relevant documents? No, but close! Did the 12 previously signed other papers? No. Blank ones?
Are game shows relevant? Magic shows? Is Jim a magician? Is counting papers relevant? Making them appear somewhere? No to all.

Did Jim wear webcams? Invisible ink relevant? Were the 12 blindfolded? In a dark room? Were the 12 condemned? Did they sign their responsibilities? No to all.
Is their amount of power inversely proportional to the amount of power of Jim? (The higher thei power the lower the power of jim). Not exactly, but they kind of have this sort of relationship.
Are the 12 papers bigger than a standard A4 sheet? No. After the signatures, were the papers put in an archive? Not relevantly. Shown to someone? Not relevantly. Publicized? No. Printed? Put on newspapers? No to rest. Was only the signature displayed? No. Do people know that the sheets were blank? Some did.

Relevant how the 12 were convinced to sign the blank papers? Not really. Did they fully understand the consequences of their signatures? Yes. That they would have give Jim a certain amount of power? Yes. The amount of power he effectively gained? Possibly, irr. Did they sign in front of jim? Yes. In front of someone relevant? No one relevant other than Jim. In front of a jury? No.

Did Jim ask the signatures in first person to each one of them? Not sure what you mean, reword? Was anuthing relevantly pressed on the blank papers after the signatures were made? Yesish. If so, official documents? Noish--you might be OTRT, reword?
Transfer of ownership? Rights? Is a transition going on? No to rest.

Were the 12 memebers of a private company? Governament? Other institution? This, for SVV of "institution." Football team? Is music relevant? Are the 12 part of a jury? No to rest.

[Earnest]

Were the blank papers "post it"? Did they have a glue on the back? Were the blank papers already parts of other documents? Is a specific blank paper given to each one of them by Jim or could any of the blank paoer be given to any of the 12? Is the power given to jim related to the institution? Would jim have more power than the 12? Relevant in which oart of the papers they signed? At the end? On the right corner? Did jim use the signatures as proves? To gain money? Separately? All together? To convince someone?
Is obtaining the signatures of the 12 a compulsory step for anyone to obtain the same power as Jim?

To be sure...did the 12 sign one time with their names? So that at the end there were 12 signatures in total? Or they signed also for others? More than one time each? were the signatures digital ones (e.g. he simoly zoomed in a lot official documents that gave him power so that it seemed tgat the whole paper was blank when instead tgey were zoomed docunents)? Or with paper and pen? If they were digital, would they unlock something automatically? Were them send automatically? Made public?

Are other signatures of the 12 relevant? Ink used? Did jim bring the papers to someone relevantly before the signatures? To someone that made them official? Did he print them? Make copies? Could any blank paper work? Did he made the papers unique before the signatures?

Power of Jim= related to his job? Did he become the owner of something? Inheritance relevant? Insurances? Food industry? Pharma industry? Hotels? Banks? Entertainment industry? Politics? Others? Did he sell paper? Letters?

Oh the question before: I was wondering whether a sort of stamp was put on the papers? If so after the signatures? By jim? Did it take just a signature on the 12 papers for the thing (jim having more power) to be official?


Did they fully understand the consequences of their signatures? Yes. --> so is the illegal part maybe that Jim was threatening them? Their families? Did the 12 want to sign the papers? Were they happy that Jim would have gained the power?

[irishelk]

Earnest

Were the blank papers "post it"? No. Did they have a glue on the back? No. Were the blank papers already parts of other documents? No. Is a specific blank paper given to each one of them by Jim or could any of the blank paoer be given to any of the 12? The latter. Is the power given to jim related to the institution? Somewhat, but not relevant to the puzzle. Would jim have more power than the 12? Yes. Relevant in which oart of the papers they signed? Yes. At the end? This. On the right corner? Did jim use the signatures as proves? Yope. To gain money? Possibly. Separately? Yes. All together? Not that I know of, but I suppose he could. To convince someone? Yope.
Is obtaining the signatures of the 12 a compulsory step for anyone to obtain the same power as Jim? No.

To be sure...did the 12 sign one time with their names? Yes. So that at the end there were 12 signatures in total? Yes. Or they signed also for others? No. More than one time each? No. were the signatures digital ones (e.g. he simoly zoomed in a lot official documents that gave him power so that it seemed tgat the whole paper was blank when instead tgey were zoomed docunents)? No, but interesting thought! Or with paper and pen? This. If they were digital, would they unlock something automatically? Were them send automatically? Made public? No.

Are other signatures of the 12 relevant? Ink used? Did jim bring the papers to someone relevantly before the signatures? To someone that made them official? Did he print them? Make copies? No to all.
Could any blank paper work? Yes. Did he made the papers unique before the signatures? No.

Power of Jim= related to his job? Yesish. Did he become the owner of something? Yesish, but not directly related to the puzzle.
Inheritance relevant? Insurances? Food industry? Pharma industry? Hotels? Banks? Entertainment industry? Politics? He was involved in this, not super relevant. Others? Did he sell paper? Letters? No to rest.

Oh the question before: I was wondering whether a sort of stamp was put on the papers? No. If so after the signatures? By jim? Did it take just a signature on the 12 papers for the thing (jim having more power) to be official? In this particular context, yes.


Did they fully understand the consequences of their signatures? Yes. --> so is the illegal part maybe that Jim was threatening them? Their families? Quite possibly. Did the 12 want to sign the papers? Possibly, irr. Were they happy that Jim would have gained the power? Some probably were, irr.

[Earnest]

Were the paper filled with other writings after they were signed?

Country and time relevant? Modern time UE? Modern time USA? Japan? Asia? Arabic countries?

Relevant in which part of the papers they signed? Yes. At the end? This. --> because it seemed that they carefully read something on the papers? Did he use the blank pages with the signatures alone? Or maybe he rebinded them with other pages as part of a book? He scannered them? Substitute other blank pages with the ones with the signature? Fake that he was the author of the signature?

Would anyone recognize relevantly the signatures as autentic? If so, because they trusted jim? There was no way to falsify the signatures? Jim could prove they were autentic? Did the blank pages with the signatures give Jim: the right to do something? The permission to do something? The authority to do something? The possibility to have access somewhere?

Did he show up the signatures to someone? Police/guards? Others? If so did the ones who checked the signatures pay attention just on the signature? Passports relevant? Costumes? (E.g. the 12 were prisoners and he pretended to be each one of them stealing their identities?)

[irishelk]

Earnest

Were the paper filled with other writings after they were signed? Yope.

Country and time relevant? Not really, but... Modern time UE? Modern time USA? 1970s, USA. Japan? Asia? Arabic countries?

Relevant in which part of the papers they signed? Yes. At the end? This. --> because it seemed that they carefully read something on the papers? No. Did he use the blank pages with the signatures alone? Yes. Or maybe he rebinded them with other pages as part of a book? He scannered them? Substitute other blank pages with the ones with the signature? Fake that he was the author of the signature? No to rest.

Would anyone recognize relevantly the signatures as autentic? Possibly. If so, because they trusted jim? No/irr. There was no way to falsify the signatures? Jim could prove they were autentic? Irr.
Did the blank pages with the signatures give Jim: the right to do something? The permission to do something? The authority to do something? The possibility to have access somewhere? No to all.

Did he show up the signatures to someone? Not relevantly. Police/guards? Others? If so did the ones who checked the signatures pay attention just on the signature? Passports relevant? Costumes? (E.g. the 12 were prisoners and he pretended to be each one of them stealing their identities?) No to rest.

[Earnest]

Any device relevant? Is ant date relevantly displayed? Dod any of the 12 have a different power? Is the fact of maling the piece of papers unique after the signatures relevant? Did he immediately show the signatures to someone relevantly? Is it common for the 12 to sign papers all together? To give such power to people?
Is signing blank papers legal? Did he want to put them in a bad light?
Did jim use the signatures and the blank pages to reproduce something that necessitates signatures? To prove his possession of something (the paper?) autentic? Are the signatures exploited as part of a document? As part of a picture? A paint? As part of something which was plausible to suppose that had the signature of the 12? Of one of them? Of something that could be obtained just with the signatures? Did someone required the signatures? Is fashion industry relevant? Are paintings?

Does jim run a business? Work for the 12 people? Could others have gained the same power legally?
Did jim exploit the fact that he had all the 12 signatures? Did someone else have all the signatures? Just some? Are their signatures needed to validate something? To officialize something?

Did jim already have relevant powers? To make laws? If so Did his power involve blank papers? Documents? Money? Politics?

[irishelk]

Earnest

Any device relevant? No. Is any date relevantly displayed? No. Did any of the 12 have a different power? No. Is the fact of maling the piece of papers unique after the signatures relevant? Making them unique? Noish. Did he immediately show the signatures to someone relevantly? No. Is it common for the 12 to sign papers all together? No. To give such power to people? No.
Is signing blank papers legal? Yes. Did he want to put them in a bad light? Yesish.
Did jim use the signatures and the blank pages to reproduce something that necessitates signatures? No. To prove his possession of something (the paper?) autentic? Sort of--depends on what you mean. Are the signatures exploited as part of a document? YESISH. As part of a picture? A paint? As part of something which was plausible to suppose that had the signature of the 12? Of one of them? If I understand you right, yes. Of something that could be obtained just with the signatures? Did someone required the signatures? Is fashion industry relevant? Are paintings? No to rest.

Does jim run a business? Sort of. Work for the 12 people? No. Could others have gained the same power legally? Not the exact same type of power, no.
Did jim exploit the fact that he had all the 12 signatures? Yes. Did someone else have all the signatures? Just some? No. Are their signatures needed to validate something? Yesish. To officialize something? Yesish.

Did jim already have relevant powers? He did, but not super relevant. To make laws? No. If so Did his power involve blank papers? Documents? Money? This... Politics? And this, but again, not central to the puzzle.

[CoffeeBean]

So 12 different, individual people all signed their names onto blank pieces of paper?
Then gave the papers to Jim? Or to someone else?
Were all 12 people's signatures needed before Jim could move into a more powerful position? Or they weren't all needed, but it was all or none?
Is Jim blackmailing anyone?

[Earnest]

Are the documents the blank papers themselves? Are them used as documents? If not, are them used as part of other paper documents that are written and require a signature at the end (and were not the blank papers)?
Are the other documents written by Jim/provided by Jim? If so, relevant why he did not make the 12 sign them instead? Because he did not want them to read the content? Because he did not want them to know his intentions? Were the 12 blank papers used as place cards? Shown to someone at a window? Put in a certain order? Alphabetic? Were the blank papers used alone by Jim to gain the power? As mails?

Maybe he showed the blank papers to someone relevantly saying that he was treatening the 12. The someone did not trust him so that he made the 12 sign the blank papers and showed the someone their signatures to prove him that the threaten was real? Relevant why the signatures could have not been made all on the same paper? Because a separate document for each of the 12 was needed? He needed to send them to different people? To an ambassy?
Were the signatures themselves a threaten (e.g. he told them that were necessary for their bodies to be recognized after death/ for their tombstones...)? Did the 12 sign another time after having made the signatures on the 12 blank papers? If so did they sign a contract?

[irishelk]

CoffeeBean

So 12 different, individual people all signed their names onto blank pieces of paper? Yes.
Then gave the papers to Jim? This. Or to someone else?
Were all 12 people's signatures needed before Jim could move into a more powerful position? No. Or they weren't all needed, but it was all or none? Any amount would have given him some degree of power.
Is Jim blackmailing anyone? I don't think it's technically blackmail, but it's very close.


Earnest

Are the documents the blank papers themselves? Yesish. Are them used as documents? Yesish. If not, are them used as part of other paper documents that are written and require a signature at the end (and were not the blank papers)? No.
Are the other documents written by Jim/provided by Jim? There are no relevant physical documents other than the 12 pieces of paper. If so, relevant why he did not make the 12 sign them instead? Sort of, given the answer above. Because he did not want them to read the content? This is OTRT. Because he did not want them to know his intentions? No. Were the 12 blank papers used as place cards? No.
Shown to someone at a window? Put in a certain order? Alphabetic? No to all. Were the blank papers used alone by Jim to gain the power? You mean, did he use anything else? Not necessarily. As mails? No.

Maybe he showed the blank papers to someone relevantly saying that he was treatening the 12. The someone did not trust him so that he made the 12 sign the blank papers and showed the someone their signatures to prove him that the threaten was real? No. Relevant why the signatures could have not been made all on the same paper? It could have been, but this way is more effective. Because a separate document for each of the 12 was needed? He needed to send them to different people? To an ambassy? No.
Were the signatures themselves a threaten (e.g. he told them that were necessary for their bodies to be recognized after death/ for their tombstones...)? Getting them to sign entails/implies a threat, yes. Did the 12 sign another time after having made the signatures on the 12 blank papers? No. If so did they sign a contract?

[Balin]

Did he write/type/compose something on the sheets with the signatures?

[Earnest]

So he was thretening them to make them sign? E.g. members of their families? are bombs relevant?
he was thretening someone else? Or the fact that they sign implies a threaten to someone?

Were the 12 blank papers used on a white background in order to camufage them? Were them glued on a window/door? Attached to some relevant docunent? Cut? Modified with symbols and writings?
Was there a contract/other document that regulates the transfer of powers? If so, did it mention signatures on blank sheets?

Is the thretening: financial? Physical (kill someone)? Others? (Lose reputation/made something public/ violate their privacy...)? Relevant? Was him able to threaten them thanks to his job (e.g. responsible for security on camera)?

[irishelk]

Balin

Did he write/type/compose something on the sheets with the signatures? Noish, but very OTRT.


Earnest

So he was thretening them Yes... to make them sign? No (or not relevantly). E.g. members of their families? are bombs relevant?
he was thretening someone else? Not to rest. Or the fact that they sign implies a threaten to someone? Yes.

Were the 12 blank papers used on a white background in order to camufage them? Were them glued on a window/door? Attached to some relevant docunent? Cut? No.
Modified with symbols and writings? Noish but OTRT.
Was there a contract/other document that regulates the transfer of powers? No. If so, did it mention signatures on blank sheets?

Is the thretening: financial? Possibly. Physical (kill someone)? No. Others? (Lose reputation/made something public/ violate their privacy...)? Yes, all three are possible. Relevant? Was him able to threaten them thanks to his job Kind of, but this will probably mislead. (e.g. responsible for security on camera)? Not like this.

[Earnest]

Modified with symbols and writings? Noish but OTRT. --> we said he did not glue anything on them right?...so maybe he displayed letters or words on them? Did someone else put symbols/writings on them? Did he let someone believe that something important was written on them? Did he modify the blank papers at all? Are scanners relevant? Stamps? Devices? Had the signed papers been substitued with others? Are they used as official documents to threaten someone? Was the threaten to exploit the 12 signatures? To not give the 12 signatures to someone? Do delete them?

Was it usual to fill in pre-signed blank papers to save time?

Did he use the signatures as stamp to be reproduced somewhere else (e.g. he made sculptures/was a painter and needed the original signatures to repeoduce them)? Did he reproduced the signatures somewhere else? Did he expose them? Did he fake that the papers were so old that no writings was left apart from the signatures of the 12 (so that he could tell any story about the document of the signatures)?

[irishelk]

Earnest » Sat Jun 22, 2019 2:41 pm
Modified with symbols and writings? Noish but OTRT. --> we said he did not glue anything on them right? Right. ...so maybe he displayed letters or words on them? No. Did someone else put symbols/writings on them? No. Did he let someone believe that something important was written on them? Yope--even further down the right track =). Did he modify the blank papers at all? No, but... Are scanners relevant? Stamps? Devices? No. Had the signed papers been substitued with others? No. Are they used as official documents to threaten someone? Not really, DOYD of "official." Was the threat to exploit the 12 signatures? Yes. To not give the 12 signatures to someone? Do delete them? No to rest.

Was it usual to fill in pre-signed blank papers to save time? Not exactly "usual," but this is very close to what happens, and it might have been done several times.

Did he use the signatures as stamp to be reproduced somewhere else (e.g. he made sculptures/was a painter and needed the original signatures to repeoduce them)? Did he reproduced the signatures somewhere else? Did he expose them? Did he fake that the papers were so old that no writings was left apart from the signatures of the 12 (so that he could tell any story about the document of the signatures)? No to all, hint in white below if you want it:

What is relevant to the puzzle solution is not what he did, but what he threatened.

[Hobbsicle]

So the 12 signatures essentially give him power over them? Because he can, at will, make the papers into whatever kinds of documents he wants? So this is done perhaps as a pledge of loyalty/commitment/allegiance?

[irishelk]

Hobbsicle

So the 12 signatures essentially give him power over them? Because he can, at will, make the papers into whatever kinds of documents he wants? Yep, this is pretty much it. So this is done perhaps as a pledge of loyalty/commitment/allegiance?

Sorry if I was a little nit-picky on this one, thanks to Earnest and everyone for sticking with it and Hobbs for finishing it off!


***********************************SPOILER

"Jim" is Jim Jones, aka the guy behind the horrific Jonestown murders/suicides in 1978.

While he was gaining power in California, he allegedly had a dozen of his closest followers sign the bottom of blank pieces of paper. He then explained that if they ever defected or betrayed him, he would write a confession to a horrible crime on the paper and turn it in to police with their legal signature on it. As he gradually lost his mind over the next few years, these blank papers were apparently one of the major reasons some people continued to be loyal.

A lot of the "yope" answers came from the fact that, as far as I know, he never actually made good on his threat to falsify confessions. He just kept the power to do it up his sleeve.