Have you known covert agents who would place themselves in sexual roles like Sirad?
CW: Tough question. I never met anyone who would admit that they signed up to use sex as a weapon. On the other hand, motivations are personal. People I worked with used lots of personal assets to accomplish their goals. Men and women use sex to get what they want in the real world. It’s not really a stretch to imagine that they use it “over there.” BRC: Do you think the media does a good job of presenting the current political situation to us? CW: No, but that’s not a slap against them. The primary reason is that you simply can’t boil events of enormous complexity into a 90-second news item on the evening news. And that’s what we demand. We want a paragraph, a photo, a sound bite to inform us on the way from our flight to the next meeting. We want something we can use — evidence that backs up what we already believe. Also, the people who generate the stories better understand the process. Media reps and flacks know how to manipulate news cycles and how to spin. I remember how disill
