by our sworn adversaries, who, we were sure, followed no laws at all. The key men of this world, the real insiders from the CIA and the other semicovert parts of the government, soon developed their own culture and customs: They might be more or less invisible in terms of the ongoing public debate about foreign policy, but that simply made them all the more powerful. They were the real players in a real world as opposed to the world that newspapers wrote about and Congress debated. They might be pleasant and affable and did not lightly boast of their power, but it was always there—to make or
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