Saturday, December 8, 2018

How America works

Remember when the CIA admitted first that they had two video tapes of "enhanced interrogations" of prisoners that were destroyed, and then about a year and a half later, they said it wasn't two but ninety-two?  Not long after that, former CIA agent Barry Eisler wrote a novel about what might have really happened to those tapes and why called "Inside Out", which I highly recommend as both an intriguing idea and as a good thriller.

At one point in the novel, there's a conversation in which an old hand from Special Operations explains to his underling how America really works.  Here are some excerpts:

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