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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The only person routinely described in Washington culture as a maverick not afraid to say it like it is was the highly cautious, conformist John McCain
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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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Oh, that’s not going to happen, at least among Very Serious People. They cannot abandon the bedrock assumptions of their worldview.
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No one can abandon the bedrock assumptions of their worldview! That's what they're for
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