..., yet when Williams was put under the spot light, he caved the minute he thought his wife would suffer the inconvenience of having her house searched. If there was a war and Williams was captured, he would be the first to give in to his captors the minute his wife was inconvenienced ... there should certainly be some sort of screening for a weakness like that in the mlitary.
I honestly think it has
nothing to do with him not wanting to "inconvenience his wife". Remember the long pauses during the questioning, after he knew he was caught?
He was thinking, and was thinking FAST. To us it seemed like an eternity, but his mind was racing! Have you ever played Chess? You need to anticipate your opponent's next moves, and play in your head all the possibilities/consequences, not just the one next move.
After all those minutes of thinking, he came up with "trying to minimize the impact on his wife" then added "and the military". Think about it. Think why he wanted to do that? He is a military man, and like I said from the very beginning, it is all about
strategy moves.
He knew right there and then, that there was no way out. Survival mode kicked in. It was inevitable, he was going to jail. No question about that. He accepted defeat at that moment, but now he needed to think (and think fast) what was the best move to
control the damage.
Denying at that point was a non-option. Best thing would be to confess, in hopes the judge would take that into consideration on his behalf, and perhaps get a lesser sentence, maybe with good conduct he was thinking of 15 years?
Next, he had to think how he could protect his assets for when he gets out of jail. This is not your regular guy, he is intelligent and he is trained to think ahead of time. He was already projecting into the future.
So, what better way to protect your assets than trying to minimize the damage to his own home? He knew LE was going to find the 'evidence' sooner or later, better to tell them where to look, and minimize aggravating the one person he
needed on his side.
With regards to how much 'knowledge' she has and to what type of relationship they have, you made VERY good points, otto, in your second & third paragraphs! Put the pieces of the puzzle together
:waitasec: Am still trying to figure out when it was that he thought of the huge possibility one or more of his victims could sue. Not sure if he thought of that during those long pauses, or maybe days later, or perhaps it was 'someone' else who thought of that first, and brought it to his attention.
SO...his assets will be there waiting for when he gets out of jail (maybe earlier with good behavior), ALL intact and well protected (pension, new house and whatever else was in his name: maybe investments? stocks? safety deposit contents? GIC's?, who knows?). Good strategy? for sure, though I guess like in Chess, there is always the chance of things not going according to plan
About the long pauses, we can even see him nodding, tilting his head a bit, moving in his chair, etc., thinking...thinking, and not bashing himself for being so stoop.. for driving the Pathfinder to the LE station and wearing those boots.....he knew
that was not time for that...there would be plenty of time for regrets later.
ALL JMHO. :cow: