Darned impressive guy, King. With CIA, I served with two complete rotations in the Defense Attache's office. Without question, the best intelligence officer of the bunch was an Army Attache who spoke fluent Arabic. Eventually converted to Islam. My boss, the CIA chief of station, was impressed by his reports--and he was not an easy guy to impress.

In the intel business, it's really bad if you do sloppy analysis. People can die. And you have to be willing to give bad news to the higher-ups. Those unwilling to speak their minds to power don't belong.