FreehFall
Matthew X
profrv at nex.net.au
Sat Apr 24 11:15:53 PDT 1999
http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/thereview.cfm?id=840672002
"...Freeh turns out to be more Clark Kent than Superman. The FBI pursues
Wen Lo Hee for a genuinely substantial piece of espionage - selling missile
technology to the Chinese. The only problem is, he's innocent. Then it
turns out the FBI has messed up the Oklahoma investigation, Freeh falls out
with Bill Clinton, the Khobar Towers investigation falls prey to Saudi
government intransigence and the Senate launches an investigation into what
by this time is being dubbed the 'Fumbling Bunch of Idiots'. The FBI boss
does catch Hanssen, but as the latter has been spying since 1980 no-one is
terribly impressed. Freeh steps down early, his career, a bit like the
Soviet Union, fizzling out unlamented.
Vise sets out to shock us with a tale of human evil, yet Hanssen comes over
as merely a bit sad. What Vise does succeed in doing is shedding some light
on an intelligence establishment which has been malfunctioning for decades."
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