No smiley from me. You're dead-nuts correct. If I stated that he had some personal struggles that would be amplified as THE REASON and the FBI would be absolved.

Better to leave my contribution in the default setting (IE, "off" or binary 0.)

And honestly, I have no real positives about him to add which would not matter anyway for such an event. He wasn't a bad guy, but his code of personal morality and conduct and his life choices totally confused me. It was always like I'd write him "dude, WHY?" and he basically would make some statement about the inevitable misery of life itself.

He's right in a way but do everything you can to avoid misery, "brah".

And just maybe in JoFrance's take that it's CNN therefore deserves no help - they would be most likely of any news caster to frame Ilya negatively in order to justify the FBI. So I won't contribute to what will be in partial bad faith.