A Slow Burn Becomes a Raging Fire (Cuba spies despised Bush years...surprise)

Washington Post ^ | 6/7/09 | Mary Beth Sheridan and Del Quentin Wilber

[DeusExMachina05]

He was a courtly State Department intelligence analyst from a prominent family who loved to sail and peruse the London Review of Books. Occasionally, he would voice frustration with U.S. policies, but to his liberal neighbors in Northwest D.C. it was nothing out of the ordinary. "We were all appalled by the Bush years," one said.

[DeusExMachina05]

Why doesnt this BDS surpise me? But having the current admin allow thier arrest does?

[pnh102]

But having the current admin allow thier arrest does?

I expect a full pardon for these 2 if they are convicted. Who knew the late, great, Sen. Joe McCarthy was and still is right? ;)

[Venturer]

These people’s jobs are protected by Civil service regulations.

The State Department was filled with ex-Clinton holdovers tht worked against the Bush administration. That some of these were spies is no surprise, I would say this is just the tip of that iceberg.

[freekitty]

I was thinking the same thing.

Liberals will never understand the fantasy of fairytale thinking.

[elcid1970]

So another overprivileged aristocrat goes all soft for Fidel.

Just another blueblood who feels guilty for that silver spoon he was born with, and this is how he seeks to atone:

BY BETRAYING THE COUNTRY THAT MADE HIS RICHES POSSIBLE!

Lock him up and throw away the key (make sure he has a photo of his thirty eight foot sloop).

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

To rid the U.S. State Department of traitors would require a massive house cleaning.

[kittymyrib]

These two were Fidel Castro fans and spies for 30 years, so the Washington Post should not try to blame this on Pres. Bush. They fit right in to the Lefty D.C./East Coast culture, so they were never suspected because all the “intelligent people” in those circles disdain America, the country that has coddled them all these years.
Pol Pot had a cruel but brilliant solution to this problem in Cambodia when he emptied the universities and forced the upper crust from the cities to the rural areas to fend for themselves. He didn’t even have to buy bullets to get rid of most of them.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“In November 2006, Kendall Myers’s frustration with U.S. policy boiled over. In what he apparently thought was an off-the-record gathering at Johns Hopkins, he assailed the Bush administration’s treatment of one of its closest allies, Britain.”

He must be pretty confused by zero’s treatment of Britain then!

[nathanbedford]

One cannot help reading this article without having the name "Alger hiss" come to mind.

If this man was given such a high security clearance why was he not subjected to the same security measures as people in the CIA? The article says that he avoided the CIA because they require a lie detector test and the State Department does not. I think that it is time for a thorough going examination of the culture of the State Department although I understand that is not a ghost of a chance of that happening under this administration or through this Congress.

This of course is not merely a Democrat left-wing problem we have seen the State Department culture of leftism flower under Colin Powell and Richard Armitage. The CIA and the State Department seemed to have been racing neck and neck to the New York Times and the Washington Post and for the same motivation that this couple which spied on America for 30 years had, disdain for the Bush administration, hatred of America, unparalleled arrogance that they knew better than the American voters.

That reminds me, did I mention Alger Hiss?

[Carley]

The State Department is infested with traitors, spies, and outright thieves.

Albright and Powell fit in so well.

[SES1066]

I love this quote; "He has this amazing intellectual curiosity. He is open to all kinds of ideas." I forget who it was that said something about being so open to new ideas that you end up with none of your own.

As for their 'hatred' of G.W.Gush (#43), it is like the article demonstrates, they lived and breathed in a sea of liberal Democrats expressing the same 'indignation'. Thus nothing stands out in their viewpoints.

As far as the WaPo is concerned, he became a spy in the Carter Administration and continued through Reagan, Bush(41), Clinton and Bush(43). Given that standard spy handling has the threat of exposure hanging over the new spy after the first proven actions, should not Jimmy Carter be named as the causative POTUS?

[Dallas59]

Spying....The Fault of BUSH!

[Born Conservative]

"I have become so bitter these past few months. Watching the evening news is a radicalizing experience," he wrote in his diary in 1978, referring to what he described as greedy U.S. oil companies, inadequate health care and "the utter complacency of the oppressed" in America.

Another a$$wipe who apparently thinks that Cuba has better healthcare.

[RoadKingSE]

Kendall Myers was "202," while his wife, who went to work for a bank, was "123."

Those two buffoons should have bought a Cone of Silence at Control's yard sale.

[Ticonderoga34]

This line stood out for me in the article:

The couple told the agent they eventually wanted to sail to Cuba, according to the court documents.

"Our idea," said Kendall Myers, "is to sail home."

In other words, the Myers had a idealized view of Cuba as being paradise but they never could bring themselves to actually living there. According to the article, the Myers never even bothered to learn Spanish.

Typical liberal hypocrites. They were all for socialism but they didn't want to or couldn't bring themselves to actually live in a socialist/communist country.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Just another blueblood who feels guilty for that silver spoon he was born with, and this is how he seeks to atone:

We need to learn how to identify these self-loathing, undeserving big city liberals, and then legally "harvest" their fortunes.

[Vaduz]

But to his liberal neighbors in Northwest D.C. it was nothing out of the ordinary.No kidding like a liberal would know anything out of the norm see obama voters.

[Feckless]

"We were all appalled by the Bush years,"

Yeah, winning wars and staying safe at home are just appalling....

[bert]

He is a moonbat. any moonbat will do the same given the opportunity.

The President is the best example of the veracity of my statement. Personal belief and anger trumps patriotism

[Help!]

“Lack of intellectual curiosity” was an oft repeated Liberal complaint about Bush.

The old saying I’ve heard is that when your “mind is so open, your brains fall out.”