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Movies move slowly across the 694 pick-up line.\u00a0 I just watched Breach, the story of the capture of Robert Hanssen, the mole in the FBI.\u00a0 It’s well done, written by the young agent hopeful who worked as Hanssen’s assistant and put the last pieces together to\u00a0bring Hanssen down.\u00a0 After reading some of Legacy of Ashes<\/u>, a history of the CIA, it became clear to me the role these movies play in the national psyche.\u00a0 Playing up the clever strategies and cunning skill of guys like Hanssen puffs up the image of the FBI when they finally corner him; but, consider, he worked 22 years inside the FBI and even headed the Task Force looking for the mole.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Legacy of Ashes shows that when it comes to matters of subterfuge, we don’t get it.\u00a0 The CIA failed at most of its chaotically designed missions, blundering around in the affairs of other nations like a giant child, flailing\u00a0and hiding behind parking meter posts.\u00a0 The only place the intelligence community gets to look good is in movies and books.\u00a0 I don’t know whether the books and movies are intentional propaganda or if the material that gets a greenlight\u00a0passes a certain screening.\u00a0 Or, it may be that we need, as a nation, to believe that in the world of the shadows we can play as well as anybody.\u00a0 Those who’ve looked into it\u00a0suggest we can’t.\u00a0 Thought all the way through movies like Breach show the same conclusion.<\/p>\n
Demonstrating the frail line between happiness and horror our neighbor, 55 or so, went to the hospital two weeks ago.\u00a0 They thought he’d had a stroke.\u00a0 It would have been a better thing.\u00a0 He has a\u00a0demyelinating process at work in patches inside his brain.\u00a0 A process at the root of M.S. demyelination strips the insulation off nerve fibers and creates electrical storms.\u00a0 He has some aphasia.\u00a0It’s not clear how bad the damage is, nor whether it will persist.\u00a0 He’s at home now, sleeping 44 minutes at a time which keeps his wife and daughter, who just graduated from college, up as he wanders when not asleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
24\u00a0 81% 23%\u00a0 omph EEN bar29.94 steady windchill24\u00a0 Imbolc \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Crescent of the Winter Moon Movies move slowly across the 694 pick-up line.\u00a0 I just watched Breach, the story of the capture of Robert Hanssen, the mole in the FBI.\u00a0 It’s well done, written by the young agent hopeful who worked as Hanssen’s assistant … Continue reading The Only Place Our Intelligence Community Looks Good<\/span>