One thing happens to be quite timely in Ryan's "Connection" books, and I definitely do not get the impression she is attempting to be political, but rather utilizes a fact of life that is, as it were, "out there" these days, is the criminality of most, if not all, of Jenny's team. I am betting Manny, too, has bent a law or two when it suits him to get to the bottom truth of an investigation he is conducting. But for us reading this first Connection book for the first time, it is serendipitous that it was just last month the Senate Select Intelligence Committee report on the C.I.A.'s activities in law breaking was made public. Some months back we had almost more information than we could handle re the NSA also breaking laws in the name of national security. Almost week after week, if not day after day, reports come in of blatant disregard of our laws by employees of various departments and agencies of our official government, such as the police and F.B.I. Apparently there are a slew of well paid personnel working for agencies all over this world, but off the books and on the sly so as to be as deniable as possible, who break laws in order to gain information. Spies, interrogators, investigators, and so on. I rather expect it has been true for thousands of years. My mind struggles with whether it is a good thing or a bad thing for us, the normal everyday sort of citizen, to know these things. The only answer I seem to be able to come up with, given my huge lack of insider knowledge, is that perhaps the possibility of public disclosure will force government officials to try to keep closer to The Law and prevent an all out, reckless, totalitarian rule allowing these agencies to intrude upon our freedoms and our everyday lives. Do I make any sense with all this? I am, like Ryan, trying not to be in any way political; I am just one who thinks about how things work.
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