This guy is a "retired" spook. He never says anything without an agenda.

Never been able to decide if he was trustworthy.

But he's been a around a long time and usually seems to have good info, if you can get past the fact that his neighbor raises fences at Gitmo, his "friends" include high ranking Chinese insiders and he overthrew governments for a living. (the last one seems legit at least)

As they say, once a spook always a spook.