This is how the "intelligence community" describes absolutely everyone who works in their hermetic world. Remember Comey, Barr, Mueller? All straight-shooters! No one ever says "MacRaven played by his own rules—we didn't know whether to fire him, shoot him, or give him a medal"https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1176254929784254464 …
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High office in D.C. is like academic tenure—designed to carefully weed out those qualities in applicants that it notionally celebrates. So the IC is full of Mormons and naive Eagle scouts rather than anyone who understand the fragility of the rulebook they play by
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Watching Trump destroy the prestige, culture, and stature of the three-letter agencies is one of the only redeeming aspects of his presidency, though of course no fun for the people involved. But ultimately good for the country, if we survive it.
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Don't forget "Mad Dog" who wasn't afraid to take the hard path and tell it like it is... Unless there's a fraudulent blood testing company or fascist to confront, at which point, where does he endorse the check?
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