Discussion about the Suspected Spies

with Scott Shane, Charles Kupchan and Peter Earnest
in Current Affairs
on Thursday, July 1, 2010 * * * * *

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A look at the russian spy story with Scott Shane from the New York Times, Charles Kupchan of the Council on Foreign Relations and Peter Earnest, formerly of the CIA, now with the International Spy Museum

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    1. robdverity  07/02/2010 03:39 PM Report

      Our intelligence(?) is suspect and fraught with childishness. (Similar to the military and their corporate minders.) The CIA (with Blackwater) in particular, and the FBI not that much better.

      Cloak-n-dagger, cops-n-robbers and general Republican jingoism and an Obama counter-insurgency led to the TIMING of this so-called bust. Would the FBI embarrass the admin.? Would the CIA murder civilians (w/drones)? Would a bear poop in the woods?

      You can bank on the same outdated spy-novel tactics by our "children" as much as theirs. They all take lessons from Mossad, who is still clandestinely killing in Dubai hotels and feeling smug and oh-so-clever.

      The NSA was exposed for total buffoons on the 911 tragedy, and the FBI on this bit of conjured heroics prob. more destructive than not with the arrest of these seemingly feckless fools. Prob. learned more with them remaining 'active' than not. But then you have to forgo embarrassing the O admin. Ah well, there's dumber things going on. It's just the drip-drip-drip that gags. Slow water-boarding I guess.

      Rejoice O has been put in his place - again.

    2. REMant  07/02/2010 02:30 PM Report

      I was wondering if this were some sort of reality TV show or new art project, but they've confessed. The timing is suspicious, and I have to suppose there are some agents in this country as well as theirs past retirement age. The FBI may have waited this long to do roll it up because they were waiting for them to actually do something. On the other hand, watching each other is more profitable than actually making arrests.