@Jose_Pagliery  @Schwartzesquethere  was so much here though to make one wonder if the FBI might have seen warning signs about him— cheating on his wife, restraining order taken out against his mistress, bundles of cash, meeting Albania PM, etc.

seems like such a classic case of breaking bad/mid life crisis

And can i just say, the FBI/Irish boys club fraternity

seriously wonder if doing counterintel for 20/25 years is too long, if it is inherently corrupting,

maybe he was designated under a different name. him?

spouse opened a (really yummy) 2014 bottle of Justin isosceles, which doesn’t happen often. makes one think of what was happening in 2014 (lordy, we didn’t know what was coming), & abt friends we visited the vineyard with, & other friends & family. in a way, a time capsule.

NPR interview with Memphis pastor worried national media could be inadvertently stoking anxieties

“For years, he says, he thought that the main vice of the country’s rulers was corruption. ‘Why would they want war?…They want palaces! Yachts! Sicily! Sardinia! . . . It turned out to be a veil,’he says. A veil obscuring a deep militarism & revanchism.”

was doing that the other night.

salt of the earth. probably none of them should be driving, several don’t remember the plans. but 85yo relative in law’s social circle looking out for each other when he is newly bereaved, is truly heart warming.