#personal-security

#personal-security

His first wife wasn't in the CIA, and didn't know he worked for the government agency. He couldn't tell her where he'd actually been that day or why he'd sometimes come home late. Even harmless details he couldn't share with her, he said. He'd come home, and she'd ask how his day was, what he'd done, and who he'd interacted with, and he recalled only giving one-word answers like "great," "nothing," and "nobody."

My mom, who is now in her 70s, will leave her car running, unlocked, sitting on the street when she stops by someone's house. She spent 45 minutes at my house one day, and when I walked her out, her car had been running, unlocked the whole time. I said, 'You know, anyone could just jump in and drive off with it, right?' Her response was, 'It hasn't happened yet. I'll be fine.'

Messages were posted on a social media platform on Saturday night in which threats of violence were specifically made against them. Investigators from the Special Detective Unit (SDU), which oversees threats to national security and violent political extremism, are pursuing the matter. Previous incidents included a bomb threat being called in to his family home, masked men gathering outside the property, and threats of violence being made against his wife and children.