Re: Spy Vs. Spy

["Macdonald Stainsby" <mstainsby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

They that all great empires are completely paranoid, and with good reason.
At the height of power is the greatest weakness, standing on the tip of a
mountain leaves you a long, painful fall. With the level of McCarthyism that
is rearing it's head, one would think that the country is infested with
communists about to overthrow democracy or something (oh, to dream the good
dream!).

I think folks might want to take another look at this kind of scapegoating
that has an erie ring to it: From Wen Ho lee to Mariano Faget, there is a
line up of people inside the system itself being purged for their alleged
ties to "communist conspiracies"... the last time this happened, the left
was decimated up until today. This time, we don't have much further we can
get pushed back.

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> Even the bourgeois media can't take this "Cuban Spy" story seriously:
> MIAMI-DADE
>
>
>            Published Sunday, March 12, 2000, in the Miami Herald
> >  Was INS official spying, or is case a
>  mistake?
> >  Faget: Cuba links innocent
> >  Faget: `Spy' talk was only business
> >  Accused INS official lays claim to anti-Castro past
> >  BY ALFONSO CHARDY
> >
>  Accused Cuban spy Mariano Faget Jr. has lived a life filled with ironies.
> >  He's referred to as a member of Fulgencio Batista's aristocracy, but
the vast
> majority of his childhood and all of his adult life have been spent in
Miami.
> >  He's accused of being in league with Fidel Castro, but one of the most
> terrifying  moments of his life was being shot at by Castro
revolutionaries as a
> teenager in
>  Cuba.
>
>  He holds a ``secret'' security clearance, but former colleagues at the
> Immigration  and Naturalization Service don't recall him ever handling
secret or
> sensitive cases.
>
>  And he's been charged with withholding from his supervisors his
> involvement in a  company designed to do business with Cuba, even though
there is no evidence  that the company has ever done a business deal. The
address given for its offices
>  is a two-story house belonging to one of the partners.
>
>  ``He was just an administrator, someone who moved paper competently,''
said
>  Tammy Fox, a former INS prosecutor from 1983 to 1988 who knew Faget.
``The
>  really sensitive cases were handled in Washington.''
>
>  Mariano Faget has been the subject of intense speculation ever since the
FBI
>  announced a month ago that he had been arrested for revealing classified
>  information to a childhood friend just before the friend was to meet with
> Cuban
>  officials. But a search through Mariano Faget's life turns up little that
> suggests
>  intrigue.
>
>  He took a job as a government interpreter at age 20 because his father
> could no  longer work, and he later sought a mid-level bureaucrat's post
so he could spend
>  more time with his family. He once sold Amway products to bring in extra
> money.  He was looking forward to retirement in July.
>
>  ``I was looking forward to a change in my life,'' Faget said. ``I had no
> definite idea  about what I was going to do, just general plans about
either becoming a  stockbroker or a consultant to an immigration lawyer.''
>
>  Now those plans are on hold as Faget fights to stay out of prison -- and
> to restore  his reputation.
>