Disdain for U.S. Policies May Have Led to Alleged Spying for Cuba
9th June 2009
He was a courtly State Department intelligence analyst from a prominent family who loved to sail and peruse the London Review of Books. Occasionally, he would voice frustration with U.S. policies, but to his liberal neighbors in Northwest D.C. it was nothing out of the ordinary. “We were all appalled by the Bush years,” one said.
And that pretty much tells you all you need to know about our modern American functionary class. As with Britain in the 1930s, fashionable socialism among the establishment adolescentia leads to disaffection when those in charge of the government persist in acting like grownups, which moves fairly smoothly into treason.
If we were to automatically imprison the entire graduating class of the top ten U.S. universities, the nation would come out ahead in the long run.