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On Tuesday, the heads of the FBI, CIA, and the director of national intelligence got up in front of Congress and pissed all over Donald Trumps parade.
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In John Le Carres Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, spy-catcher George Smiley is pulled out of retirement to ferret out a double agent at the heart of British intelligence. The Soviet spymaster running this mole is known in the book only as Karla.
In the book, both Karla and the mole are experts at deceit. In our own real-life version, Karla is a failed KGB officer who nevertheless has been able to assume leadership over an entire nation, and the mole is a failed game show host who, with Karlas help and the apathy of too many of our citizens, was installed in the Oval Office. It would be farcical were the real-world consequences not so serious.
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Good read.
Turbineguy
(37,324 posts)was way smarter than Trump.
sheshe2
(83,754 posts)Fact is a two year old is smarter than trump.
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)George Smiley is brilliant.
Enoki33
(1,587 posts)thucythucy
(8,050 posts)whom Le Carre knew when he worked with British Intelligence.
It IS a great read, and the Alex Guiness BBC production of decades back is wonderful TV.