It sounds like a bad spy novel

Read this.

I can't get my tiny head around it yet but I'll tell you this, it doesn't set me at ease.

Italian Defense Ministers. Shadowy Iran-contra figures. Espionage on behalf of the Israel lobby (?). Feith. Hadley.

We have a national security apparatus that isn't functioning, turf wars over what the Iran policy should be, questions about who the actors behind our Iraq policy were... it's all crazy-like.

If only we had a congress that wasn't so obsessed with protecting Republicans and a mass media that was more interested in the possibility that foreign states and untrustworthy interests might be manipulating our foreign policy than whether or not Kerry bled the first time he was hit with enemy fire....