The story about the State Department employee turned traitor is fascinating for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that the guy did it for three decades. According to this story, the traitor hated his country so much that he decided to give secrets to Fidel Castro...and it's George W. Bush's fault.
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.
Yes, because, you see, living under the boot of communism is really a lot better than owning a yacht and pulling in a six-figure salary for the State Department.
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.
"We typically ignore them and take no notice. . . . It's a sad business," Myers told the audience. The British press reported it.
I'm still trying to figure out how George W. Bush's presidency in 2001 made Myers betray his country in 1978. I guess there's some time travel involved, perhaps?
Sounds like only the latest case of BDS to me.
H/T: Brothers Judd.
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