Nice to meet you! Bond. James Bond. Look at these names now... Andropov, Bush, Putin, Kinkel, Panetta,
and now Ungureanu. All of them have one thing in common. They jumped over from professional espionage and plunged into politics. Nothing too unusual, some would say. Dangerous!, others would counter. And who would be right?
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I think that before becoming the head of the CIA his intelligence experience came from working as Clinton's Chief of Staff, and being an S2 for a year or two in Vietnam.
And come to think of it, other than a (rumored) year or two in the OSS, Bush was the same deal.
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Unfortunately in the USA people tend to overrate democratic institutions in terms of reining in sufficiently-minded authoritarian SOBs.
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