bendog
10-20-2005, 09:16 AM
It's prolly 2 years old by now, so your local library should have it on the shelves. I'm going to reread it next library visit. It's uncanny in similarity to what is emerging in the Plame case. LeCarre's premise was that for geopolitical gain, the neocons in the bush admin faked intelligence that showed islmaic state funding of terrorism in the West, and when former intelligence types tried to confront them, they were set up, and ultimately killed.
The neocons didn't literally try to kill Plame and Wilson, but they killed their careers.
I read the thing, and though, where'd he get this? All of his books are based on facts. Tailor of Panama and the soon to be coming in film Constant Gardner were tales of tired moral outrage at intelligence compromised for politics and personal gain. But I recall in Absolute Friends he seemed to write as if he was furious at the neocons.
The neocons didn't literally try to kill Plame and Wilson, but they killed their careers.
I read the thing, and though, where'd he get this? All of his books are based on facts. Tailor of Panama and the soon to be coming in film Constant Gardner were tales of tired moral outrage at intelligence compromised for politics and personal gain. But I recall in Absolute Friends he seemed to write as if he was furious at the neocons.