It is a sad sign of decline at Cambridge University that their latest spy is working for United States.
What is this poor world coming to?
Cambridge spies are supposed to work for the Russians.
There is tradition to uphold here, folks.
Can Putin and his minions no longer recruit idealistic socialists who hate their country?
Must they give up on entirely British universities and rely on Berkeley, Oberlin, and Evergreen State?
There is a small glimmer of continuity. At least the recruiting agencies were up to no good.
They were doing their best to infiltrate an American political campaign.
The story is here, complete with the spy’s name and picture. We know those details thanks entirely to CYA leaks from the DOJ or FBI, trying desperately to get ahead of Congressional investigations and the Horowitz report (the DOJ Inspector General).
Those details were supposed to be top secret. That the officials charged with keeping the secrets released them to protect themselves is a scandal in its own right.
On a more serious note: the house that Comey, Clapper, Brennan, and their aides built now looks increasingly like a game of jenga. The wooden blocks are being removed, though the process is moving very, very slowly because of DOJ and FBI self-protection.
Did these guys previously work on transparency and document security for Joe Paterno’s athletic department?
But with each new block removed, the whole structure looks more and more likely to collapse.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes next plans to investigate the role former CIA Director John Brennan and other Obama intelligence officials played in promoting the salacious and unverified Steele dossier on Donald Trump — including whether Brennan perjured himself in public testimony about it.