If the issue is that CEA communicated poorly or you misunderstood the rejection, I agree that’s not necessarily worth getting into. But you’ve made a strong claim about how CEA makes decisions based on the contents of a message, whose author is willing to make public. It looks to me like you essentially have two choices:
Agree to make the message public, or
Onlookers interpret this as an admission that your claim was exaggerated.
If the issue is that CEA communicated poorly or you misunderstood the rejection, I agree that’s not necessarily worth getting into. But you’ve made a strong claim about how CEA makes decisions based on the contents of a message, whose author is willing to make public. It looks to me like you essentially have two choices:
Agree to make the message public, or
Onlookers interpret this as an admission that your claim was exaggerated.