Ponder further that this guy went to work for what I understood to be something like a mercenary CIA, a private, for-profit company that would “take care of things” like, oh, I don’t know, murderering Putin’s personal chauffeur?
Ponder this. Ponder what someone without a conscience and with a lifetime’s experience dealing out lies and disinformation could do with a billion dollar check.
For my money, he either needs to be legally put into permanent retirement, or the books of his company regularly audited, so that we know precisely who he is working for and what they are doing. All this needs to be made the law.
And we need to assume that anyone he was close to at the CIA or elsewhere is part of the Traitor State. We are not a nation of purges, but there is something to the logic of guilt by association. I am not proposing jailing or killing them, as the Communists would, but simply removing them from the web of capabilities that being within our intelligence apparatus gives them, and then putting a permanent and close watch on them. Give them a sizable payout, then let them take up painting or yoga somewhere remote.