I`ve been a member of the Intelligence Community (IC) for just under 30 years. I too noticed the fact that individuals from the IC put their personal political views before the oath they took when the were hired....From 1993 through 2001, there were issues I was aware of that might have been embarrassing had they come to light. I did not feel compelled to find a reporter...Were I D/CIA General Hayden, I`d take a page from the Left`s book and conduct a rather exhaustive purge....Comment from the intelligence community, letter to David Horowitz, Frontpagemag.com
Perhaps national intelligence officers with a leftist bent (many, according to this letter at Frontpagemag.com) have been reading too many John Le Carre novels. You know the basic plot: bored, tragically-minded, sensitive, and spiritually weak intelligence agent falls in love and, to save his sense of himself, betrays his country. At least in Le Carre novels it's about loving another person, although it's fair to point out that standard NKVD practice was the "honey-trap", something not lost on a great novelist like Charles McCarry. In the case of the new national intelligence report and its reporters, however, it looks more like adoration of mirror images. This is the most likely picture today: a not-so-youngish, if fairly good looking, agent, stands nude before a mirror with a copy of The New York Times covering the part he or she is most ashamed of, the face.
Luther
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