"“How does this organization even function?” I say. “Lasher isn’t talking to you, we lost pretty much all of Intel last year, and State’s keeping secrets from everyone—” “This is a spy agency,” Morris says. “We’re basically state-sponsored professional liars.” I frown. “It sounds pretty unsavory when you put it like that.” “It’s the truth. We do secret things every day of the week and twice on Sundays, and we can’t talk about most of those things. You either learn to live with it, or you find a new job.”"
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