Agent Double-Oh-Zero

I often wonder if Curt Weldon watched James Bond movies as a teen and said to himself, "Yeah. I could do that."
Unfortunately, two things happened:
1) Curt wound up with all the skill and intelligence of Inspector Clouseau.
2) He became a globe-trotting Congressman (and not the cool basketball kind of globe-trotter).

This has led Curt into many run-ins with the State Department and Intelligence Community. Back in May 1999, "In an effort denounced by the Clinton Administration as 'uncoordinated free-lance diplomacy', a bipartisan group of House members asked for congressional support Thursday for a Kosovo peace plan they negotiated privately with a delegation of Russian lawmakers....Federal law prohibits private citizens from negotiating with foreign governments...The State Department has publicly maintained that it opposes such free-lance peacemaking missions." Source: CNN

As recently as March 2006, Weldon touted his own great spy network (one unreliable informant) and announced that Bin Laden was dead. A month later, Bin Laden was alive (again).

Does Curt think that Bin Laden rose from the dead? Will Curt worship Bin Laden over his buddy Reverend Sun Myung Moon as the new Messiah?

Remember, this is the same informant who provided the basis for Curt's widely discredited Able Danger book. In the world of espionage, Curt's the spy equivalent of the guy that buys a $10 Rolex from a street vendor.

If Curt grew up today watching Vin Diesel, he'd aspire to be Triple-Zero.