I don't see anywhere that he asserted that Declan's theory about the Facebook post was correct. In fact, I see the opposite[1], demonstrating exactly the kind of questioning everyone should have been doing today.
I also find it more than a little disingenuous that you included the "Well, we don't know that for sure - they could have tipped off the employer" line in there. Especially after attempting to invoke Occam's Razor. Yes, the NSA could have tipped off the employer to review an employee's searches and hope that they would then report it to the police. Of course, the police could have also seen the fireworks on Facebook, reported it to the NSA, who then planted the searches on the computer for the employer to find. We don't know for sure, after all!
If you found that part disingenuous, you misinterpreted my post. I included that only to immediately dismiss it, in the same vein as your intentionally asinine example. My point was that the fireworks being the cause of the visit makes far less sense than the Google searches being monitored. Which turned out to be correct - they were monitored.
I also find it more than a little disingenuous that you included the "Well, we don't know that for sure - they could have tipped off the employer" line in there. Especially after attempting to invoke Occam's Razor. Yes, the NSA could have tipped off the employer to review an employee's searches and hope that they would then report it to the police. Of course, the police could have also seen the fireworks on Facebook, reported it to the NSA, who then planted the searches on the computer for the employer to find. We don't know for sure, after all!
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6143485