Finished Season 1 of “The Recruit” now released on Netflix, about how a Georgetown Law School grad joined the CIA as a junior lawyer and then he survived in many struggles from internal office politics to terrorist attacks externally.

I was quite amused by the bureaucracy of different arms of the US Government, from the Agency to the State Department, and to the Treasury — Wow! Sanctions are real! OFAC looks very powerful!

On the other side, it seems personal connections do matter everywhere. Rule of law? People write the law and enforce the law.