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I looked into the issue of whether or not he breaches the AIA Code of Ethics back in May 2012. By my lawyer's reasoning he breaches the AIA Code. See this post:
Note also that the AIA Code applies a stricter standard than "is he lying" - i.e. telling deliberate untruths. It imposes a strict liability for truthfulness. So it is no defence that he believes what he says - if he does so believe. See the explanations in my linked posts.
I also compared the relatively "soft" standard of AIA to an example of a stricter ethical obligation - my own actually resulting from membership as a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia. See this post which immediately follows the one at the previous link.
I might also suggest that US readers especially avoid over-reading the US constitutional provisions protecting freedom of speech as if they were relevant here. They are not. Gage joined an organisation which obliges him to meet the standards of the organisation in respect of ethical conduct. He voluntarily agreed to those ethical standards so, to the extent that they may limit his constitutional right of free speech if they in fact do so, it was his free choice to accept the limitation.
The AIA is a political organization....of of the several reasons I refuse to belong to it. As long as they have the fees coming in , they really will not care.