A question more that a theory.

Do we accept that everything Bruno Heller has revealed publicly is valid, or is it more reasonable to believe that while some of the information is valid, some of it is most certainly misinformation.

I believe the latter.

It strikes me as odd, for example, that he would publicly confess to not settling on the identity of Red John until somewhere during Season 4 (or thereabouts) - even if this were true, what would the benefit be of revealing that?  Furthermore, does it make sense that he would have been clear on the existence of The Blake Association (and the role it would play), before knowing who Red John would be? (Tyger Tyger goes back to Season 2 if I'm not mistaken).

Maybe hope on my part, but RJ still feels like he's out there, I think he's Mashburn, but in any event, the first 8 episodes don't seem to hang even now.