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A SPY AMONGST FRIENDS Colin Alter credits God's design savvy for his success as a District of Columbia Amtrak Chaplain. Alter, touching his ears, says, "two ears to hear with," then touching his mouth says, "one mouth to speak from." Alter explains the life lesson of "listen more, speak less," could benefit many including newsmakers Hotel Heiress Paris Hilton and presidential confidant Doug Wead. An open PC book, Paris Hilton shares all and bares all. When contents of the self-described "faithful girlfriend's" Sidekick were posted to the Internet along with soft porn photos of her coupling with another female, the world discovered what few knew before about Paris, her friendship comes with a high price tag, invasion of privacy, a thrill, not livelihood, for the $300 million heiress. Paris exposed Sidekick notations included friend's intimacies, along with who to tell about what they did, with whom. One note, amongst many, said "tell Ken about Jess trying to bone JT." Ken Baker, the celebrity columnist for US Weekly, Pat O'Brien and Smokey Fontaine, are several tattle-telling gossip mongers found in Hilton's Sidekick through whom she betrayed friend's confidence. Her friends, and the world, saw the depth of Hilton's loyalty. The Heiress insists she is trustworthy. She says her Sidekick password was accessed then hacked. But then, months earlier, Paris also said her 19 year old innocence was duped by a decade older lover, Rick Salomon, "a scumbag and complete liar," participating with her in their sexually explicit video. Hilton says the Los Angeles Kabbalah Center guides her life, for the better. She says, "I go there regularly." "I'm very into the Kabbalah." "It helps you deal," she told Britain's B magazine, "It helps me if I'm having a hard time." The Kabbalah Center sells Paris, and other devotees, a "Red String" for $26.95, updating a European Jewish superstition tradition fashioned from red sewing thread off a $1.99, or less, spool. Hilton says her "new bracelet," the red string, "really wards off a lot of bad energy and bad people in my life, and it teaches me and grounds me. I love it." Doug Wead released the tape recordings coincidental to the release of his book, "The Raising of A President." Wead, a former Assembly of God minister connected in evangelical circles, revealed to media secret recordings he made of conversations with a friend's son assuring the taping was in accordance with the law of the states he was recording from where a taped party does not need to be advised "you have the right to be silent or your words will be held against you" in the court of public opinion. Wead justifies his betrayal of confidence alleging that recording a future president talking about priorities and political life, is preservation of "a rare record of the future president as a politician and personality" with "historic value." Then Texas Governor George Bush, son of former President George Bush Senior, incumbent President Bush is the friend Wead tape recorded. White House spokesman Trent Duffy said "The governor was having casual conversations with someone he believed was his friend. The starlet of "The Simple Life 3: Interns," once told media "It's me versus the world." Another time she said, "I don't know why stuff always happens to me." Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of "Why Bad Things Happen To Good People." has an answer for the Hilton heiress and for her father, Rick, grandson of Conrad Hilton, the hotel chain founder. Paris' father had said, "I love my daughter more than anything in the whole world." "I support her in every way humanly possible." Paris' aunt, in a recent entertainment story-logue, said Rick, who went clubbing with Paris as a child, still clubs with her at this age, "It goes without saying that I was severely unhappy knowing that such a tape exists." Hilton, on behalf of his "sweet natured daughter Paris," released an official Hilton Family statement through a NY PR man, stating the Hilton family is greatly saddened at "how low human beings will stoop to exploit her for their own self-promotion as well as profit motives." Kushner writes, free will makes people human, able to cheat, rob and hurt. "God helps those who stop hurting themselves." Rabbi Kushner wrote his book for people hurt through death, illness, injury, rejection or disappointment. Kushner explains about moral choices in a complicated world, just like Adam and Eve had to after leaving Eden. God, Kushner says, can only look down in pity and compassion at how little humans have learned over the ages about how humans should behave. Kushner says there is no magic cause for every effect and no secret reason for everything that happens other than "we," being are own "cause of what happens, especially the bad things." Like friends who aren't really friends publishing secrets, taping private phone conversations and recording people like President George Walker Bush, a Bible believer keeping his ego in check. The Bible is replete with stories of betrayals, broken secrets and a Promised Land twelve spies were sent to scope out. Like the Hilton heiress, the Twelve Spies came back with "notes." Ten of the twelve notes said the Promised Land was too difficult to possess. The biblical notes of the other two spies, Caleb and Joshua, have the historic value Wead refers to, assuring the Promised Land could be taken, if people believed in God and His promises. And in history not repeating itself through choices people make. BIO: Carrie Devorah is an investigative photojournalist based in Washington DC. Her themes are faith, philanthropy, homeland security and terrorism, people behaving badly and spies among us.