People Who Got Shorter Sentences Than Chelsea Manning: Spies Selling Secrets To Russians etc...

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28. Its almost as if there is some kind of order...

You can almost picture, sometime back in the 60's, in South America a KGB agent and a CIA agent, both knowing what the other is, sitting down to drinks:

CIA: "You know, we don't have to live under the threat of nuclear destruction, what if we - I mean you and me, got along?"
KGB: "That true, most of people in Russia and the US live in blissful ignorance of the work we do. Should we treat each other as dogs?"
CIA: "Why do that, when we are the bravest and best in the world? What if people like us stopped being slaves of a public, in the US and Russia that doesn't care about us, and started standing up for ourselves?"
KGB: "Yes, what if people like us started to protect our own interests, and for once look at the stupid public as the 'other' in the situation?"

Long drinks.

CIA: "We'd stop forever the threat of nuclear war."
KGB: "But leaks to the public would become more severe in punishment than leaks to each other. Wouldn't the public notice?"
CIA: "Nah, they're all idiots".