• Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

    Aldrich Ames: Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
    Letter from his cell at the Allenwood Federal Penitentiary to Stephen Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, November 2000; cited on the FAS website. Ames, you see, was not at fault; it was those who trusted him.