I think the basic premise of the hostile takeover strategy is totally fair, but contracting with Mossad guys a la Black Cube to stalk the personal lives should be disclosed to the board. CEOs should expect the board to not retain firms that investigate their personal lives *to that extent. If he was secretly a heroin addict maybe that's a different situation.

That said, they didn't need ex-spies to put together the stock chart timeline superimposed with Bush's instagram party pics. That's just savage and clever.