As far as
Nog versus
Shasta, upon rereading
Shasta's post I'm more than ever leaning towards both of them being innocent.
Glirdan has already expressed most of what I would say regarding
Shasta's defense (it shouts "innocent" to me as much as anything I've seen from anyone today).
Similarly, when I look at the way in which
Nog accused
Shasta, while it may be wrong it does not strike me as invention. His claim that
Shasta particularly went after him rather than me based upon who would be around at the deadline- it really sounds like honest paranoia and annoyance. If I recall I have actually been chided for doing the same thing- always assuming that all the baddies are out to get
me in particular, and so if someone did to me what
Shasta did to
Nog I can well imagine having a "Ah ha! Trying to kill me, eh?!" reaction to it, and building the case from there.