Are Liberals Too Eager to Believe Sex Charges Against Julian Assange?

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63. You know what? I don't care what you think. Especially since you are using

blatant belittling tactics to draw attention away from the issues that have been raised.

Where do you think spy thrillers books/movies get their ideas? Do you honestly think that the authors make them up out of a whole cloth? Especially the more realistic ones. I stopped reading spy thrillers when Helen MacInnes stopped writing (and since she died in 1985 that was a looong time ago). Her husband served as an MI6 British intelligence agent -- which lent a certain amout of authenticity to her works.** (Even so, thirty years would be a long time for me to remember the details of those novels -- especially when I've probably read somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 to 15,000 books in the intervening years.)

As for spy thriller movies -- I can't remember when I last saw one -- or even if I've ever watched one.

** footnote:

MacInnes's third novel, Assignment in Brittany (1942), was required reading for Allied intelligence agents who were being sent to work with the French resistance against the Nazis.[7] Her 1944 book, The Unconquerables carries such an accurate portrayal of the Polish resistance that some thought she was using classified information given to her by her husband.[8][9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_MacInnes