[TWhiteBear]

Mr. Tillerson knows, has met, and worked with more heads of State, past and present, than Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama, in his 40 successful years at Exxon.
And Exxon has an intelligence structure and data base with roots that go back farther than any present Federal agency. While prissy elitists in the US were sniffing that gentlemen do not read each others mail’, the predecessors of Exxon had been doing dirty deeds done discreetly for several decades.
Besides, the guy was a Boy Scout and can tie a square knot when he wants to.
TWB

[DesertRhino]

Gentlemen don’t read each other’s mail. Stimson was correct. That’s the mark of a despot and of a dishonest nation.
Better to be above board to all, with grave consequences for nations that don’t honor that. That same Stimson build the A-bomb and our WWII military.

The cult of intelligence has caused ten times the misery it has saved us from.