‘Keep your mouf shut and people will kowtow to you as Senator, and only once in a great while will they muscle you into doing their bidding...
...and remember, raw power is a very seductive drug!’
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...but then there is the ‘small’ problem of the Awans having a decade of intel that has been siphoned throughout the Paki sphere and who knows where else???
And who was blackmailed or willing to let spies from the world’s only muslim nuclear power on earth have unlimited access to the inner workings of congress?
Pretty sure it wasn’t the FBI doing that bit of blackmail, but blackmail is blackmail and the FBI isn’t the only agency monitoring US politicians. ISI is doubtless very attentive in watching them. I wouldn’t be terribly surprised to find that several US politicians were quite willing to take bribes (naïvely assuming that they weren’t being set up, it’s just bidness as usual!) A little oil money from Pakistan’s co-religionists, with a promise of data sharing can go a long way!