RIDDLE ME THIS

why is it our fiction writers make such poor spies?
is it that their plots defy our perception of "reality"
is it that we trust them only to fabricate fictions
and become uneasy when they speak the truth?
is it that we already have a class of politicians to lie to us
and thus all fiction writers are redundant(except as speechwriters)
W Somerset Maugham's work in World War One censored via Churchill
D notices given to any publication of Defense Department information
Moles exposed via David Cornwall's John Le Carre 
imitated via real Russian spies in recent American history
And the surreal nature of spydom-immortalized via Ian Fleming'JAMES BOND franchise
and satirized via Peter Sellers Clouseau and Dr Strangelove
Even Canadian Mike Myers made millions out of turning mock Bond into comedy
So it is with our "intelligence"agencies-
fictions such as mythical"weapons of mass destruction"
and false data regarding Somalian weapons factories(aspirin factories)
makes media re-telling of our spy myth history necessary and delightful
It will always be the fodder for fine fiction-from Grahame Greene's "Our Man in Havana"
to "Tinker,Tailor,Soldier,Spy".We will watch it.Closely.We do not know why....