government s legitimate intelligence-gathering agency felt that its work was undermined by mr. furlong s investigation and it shut him down and prompted the investigation. you know, you ve gone off the deep end when the cia thinks your covert operation is beyond the pale. no one can say for sure who was supervising or approving his operation and apparently some of the money he was given control over has gone missing. mr. furlong was something of a cowboy actually. according to news accounts, he liked to brag about having a notorious iran-contra on the payroll and likened his characters to fictional characters. this is not a movie. there are grave life and death consequences to the decisions made inside the pentagon. and while a movie costs us maybe $10, 12, this war in afghanistan is costing us millions every single day. it s bad enough that this congress has repeatedly asked to sign another check to pay for a war that is bankrupting our country and failing to advance our nat