Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
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John le Carre was a 20th-century British novelist and former spy. David John Moore Cornwell, better known by his pen name John le CarrĂ©, was an Irish-British author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. Read more on Wikipedia →