Neocon mouthpiece Max Boot's former CIA analyst wife is indicted as a spy

Handbags and sushi dinners for access and propaganda

Few non-politician neo-conservatives are as famous as Washington Post columnist Max Boot. Mr. Boot spent years making the case for “Trump as a Russian asset” in America’s second most important newspaper. For years the establishment has lapped his stuff up. Turns out his wife, Sue Mi Terry, former CIA analyst and member of the Council on Foreign Relations (good ole’ CFR) is an asset of South Korea, and she has been indicted.

She sold the US out for handbags?

This is Washington though and more people outside of Washington should understand the culture. The political class really does consider itself of an “elite”.

With this general psychological disposition comes an arrogance and a sense of entitlement. Sometimes people get too comfortable. They start to think the rules don’t apply to them or that, you know, so what if I carry the water (or worse) for a foriegn government? I really really want a new Birkin clutch.

(From The New York Post)

Presenting herself as an independent expert on US-Korea relations, Terry has also allegedly parroted talking points provided to her by South Korean officials in articles published in the US and Korean press in recent years.

In exchange, Terry’s handlers took her on shopping sprees – pictured in court papers – in which she picked out “gifts” of a $2,950 Bottega Veneta handbag and a $3,450 Louis Vuitton handbag, the indictment alleges.

Here is a piece that Max Boot and Sue Mi Terry wrote together just a month and a half ago on May 27th in The Washington Post focusing on US/Japan/Korea policy.

So is this journalism or public relations?