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Two great tastes that taste great together: more American informants, and more Russian spies!

FBI Proposes Building Network of U.S. Informants

Putin Orders Boost in Military, Spying

Welcome back, Cold War. We missed you. We missed the pervasive, yet incomprehensible threat of hearing a siren whoop and then suddenly ceasing to exist. We missed the genteel cloak-and-dagger days, so free of vulgarities like dirty little brown people blowing things up right in front of us. War should be abstract. It lasts so much longer that way. And the supermarket fiction was better.

My favorite quote from the FBI story:

"It's probably a good sign they are not adopting CIA recruitment techniques wholesale," said Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, an expert on classified programs. U.S. intelligence officers abroad can use bribery, extortion, and other patently illegal acts to corral sources into working for them, Aftergood noted. "You're not supposed to do that in the United States."

That's what I love about my country, by jingo: we'd never do things we're NOT SUPPOSED to do, right?

Boys and girls, if you are approached by these people, and you want to join up, ask what's in it for YOU. Take control of the negotiations immediately.