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Impeachment hearings are all about non-fictional and fictional storytelling
A few months ago I first heard someone on TV talk about “the server in the Ukraine.” It was a Republican congressman talking, and he was behaving in a way I’ve now come to realize is the delivery system for … Continue reading
Posted in Mueller investigation, political campaigns, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged A Spy Among Us, alternative facts, Ben Macintyre, David Cornwell, House Intelligence Committee hearings, impeachment, Jim Jordan, Kim Philby, Mueller report, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Trump
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Rex Tillerson: A little spy story
As I eagerly await new indictments — my temperament seems to require an indictment every month or so — and yes, the most recent subpoena announcement does soothe me… For most of my life as a reader I have devoured … Continue reading
Posted in Komprosplat, Politics, The Facts of Life, voting and voting rights
Tagged A Spy Among Friends, Chris Hayes, Christopher Steele, CIA, Dan Coats, David Cornwell, Donald Maclean, Evelyn Farkas, Exxon, FBI, Guy Burgess, Jane Mayer, Kim Philby, Litvenenko, MI5, MI6, Michael Flynn, Mike Pompeo, Mitt Romney, New Yorker, Nikolai Grushkov, Papadopoulos, plutonium poisoning, poisoned team, Putin, Rachel Maddow, Rex Tillerson, Russian nerve gas, Russian poisoning, Russian sanctions, Skripal, Trump
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Part 2. Triple Cross: an eerie encounter with Russian spies
Somewhere in the middle of my tandem read and re-read of A Spy Among Friends and Tinker Tailor, I began to smell odors emitting from our immediate Russian spy situation in the United States. Which often reads more like fiction … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged Ben Macintyre, Carter Page, CIA, David Cornwell, Donald Maclean, FBI, Guy Burgess, Harold Macmillan, J. Edgar Hoover, James Angleton, Jared Kushner, Jeff Sessions, Kim Philby, Marcus Lipton, MI5, MI6, Paul Manafort, Spy Among Friends, The Third Man, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
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