Whenever I read about spies doing this or that I think of John Le Carre novels. Forget his political posturing lately. I mean the kind of backstabbing and wheels within wheels plotting and intra-agency bureaucratic warfare that his novels describe, for example “The Looking Glass War” and “The Night Manager.” There is a lot going on below the surface here and we will probably never know what most of it is. And most of it is not James Bond derring-do, just petty venal mildly incompetent people protecting their turf.