Liking people has nothing to do with what's true.

I don't decide who to trust, and then assume that what those trusted people say is true. I evaluate what's true via my own thinking, entirely separate from who the messenger is. Source snobbery has nothing to do with validity.

It's irrelevant.

Actually now that I think about it,

I do happen to know a guy who worked for a dinky little local paper in Santa Monica years ago, I can't remember the exact name of it (but it was The Santa Monica something-or-other) and I haven't talked to him in years... but he came from a very heavy military intel/diplomat family (and so did my late husband, they were old friends from growing up together, and in those circles as adults too).

If that's his paper and he's still there, or someone like him is, it's entirely possible that someone at such a dinky little local paper might actually have very good inside sources in the FBI, directly or indirectly. And having lived there, I can safely say, a lot of people there have some odd spiritual beliefs.

The point is MADem, we don't ever know who anyone really is, or what they know.

I don't expect that to hold any weight with you, and that's fine. I'll make up my own mind though. We'll see what happens next.

Oh well!