[blackdog]

People do not work for the DOD for decades with top secret clearance without almost every move, association, conversation, vehicle movement, phone conversation, as well as their immediate relatives and neighbors, being observed and watched.

Dimentia didn't just sneak up on the guy. Maybe Demetry snuck up on him with some LSD in his apple juice, but dimentia does not go undetected in the intelligence community.

[Lurker]

People do not work for the DOD for decades with top secret clearance without almost every move, association, conversation, vehicle movement, phone conversation, as well as their immediate relatives and neighbors, being observed and watched.

Unless you're a gay Army private with access to tens of thousands of classified Diplomatic cables.

[Ditto]

People do not work for the DOD for decades with top secret clearance without almost every move, association, conversation, vehicle movement, phone conversation, as well as their immediate relatives and neighbors, being observed and watched.

I think you give them far more credit than they deserve. Remember that John Walker guy who sold Russians every secret he could get his hands and did it for over 10 years. Or Aldrech Ames who got away with similar stuff inside the CIA for even longer. And then Hansen at the FBI. Those guys all held top secret + clearances and got away with spying for the Russians for years and years and none of them were very careful how they did it. They all lived well beyond their means.

but dimentia does not go undetected in the intelligence community.

Ever hear of rapid onset or 'sudden' dementia?

[tutstar]

Exactly. He wasn’t the average joe.

[TiaS]

That’s what I’m thinking too — he could have stopped off for a drink somewhere, been drugged, followed and murdered when he was incapable of protecting himself. With all the secrets he probably had, he should have had some kind of protection.

[Bigg Red]

Not any sort of expert, but I am pretty sure a stroke could produce disoriented behavior like that of a person with demntia. He could have had a stroke without previous medical evidence.