Joseph Noonan rebuts:
> > If you're NSA, suddenly buy a house for cash and show up at the office
> > in a Bentley, the Feds will examine lots more than just your tax returns.
>
> You give them entirely too much credit. They never that noticed
> Aldrich Ames was living in a $500,000 house on his $70,000/year salary.
Maybe. If this oddity did break the surface, it was probably covered by
the fact that Ames's wife was a Latin American heiress (or do I have
my spies mixed up?). In any case, since Ames the lookout for obvious
wealth discrepancies must be much sharper. However, thanks to the
general decadence of capitalism it's never been easier to hide money.
valis
