In a moment of rare candour, former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo once told a group of university students in Texas: “I was the CIA director. We lied. We cheated. We stole … We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.” I see no reason to doubt him. Now the whole world knows about it, will it work anymore? 美國前國務卿麥克‧蓬佩奧曾在罕見的坦誠時刻對德州的一群大學生說：「我是中央情報局局長。我們撒謊了。我們作弊了。我們偷了…我們有完整的訓練課程。它讓你想起美國實驗的輝煌。我認為沒有理由懷疑他。現在全世界都知道了，這還管用嗎?