On Sat, June 13, 2015 17:56, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>
> As I said about these services here (KGB, CIA, MI-6, ...) there
> is no "ex" for their agents. The only way one retired from these
> organizations is dead, feet first dead.
>
A bit hyperbolic. One could with as much justification state that
there is no such thing as an ex-marine, an ex-seal, an ex-commissioned
officer, or an ex-almost-any-sensitive-position that has to do with
the running of a modern industrial state. Various state-secret laws
effectively see to that if nothing else.
In any case, all these organizations are based on task-completion and
need-to-know principles. Once you are no longer tasked then you are
effectively retired, even if still employed, until re-tasked. Once
you are more-or-less permanently 'untasked' then the only question is
which budget does your paycheck offset.
This is not to say that I disagree with the underlying point, only
that it is a bit overly selective in its formulation.
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