If I SPY existed TODAY, how our operatives operate?

Now, this is an interesting one to sink our teeth into. I warn, some might consider this response to be politically controversial.

I see Scotty and Kelly changes between last year and this, to be honest.

An "I Spy" series set during the Bush Administration would probably have our guys being a lot more frustrated, and shows with a lot more political content, due to what intelligence professionals called "Stovepiping." This was the practice by which people at the very top of our government decided for themselves, based on their own agendas, rather than the standard vetting process of layer upon layer of intelligence professionals, which "ground-level" intelligence was important or credible to them, and brought it directly into decision-making. I'm not making this a Republican-vs-Democrat or Conservative-vs-Liberal issue, please understand. It's a competent-intelligence-gathering issue. I see a lot more ending like that of "It's All Done With Mirrors:" a cynical Kelly and Scotty shaking their heads in despair as their superiors scrwe things up for political reasons.

An "I Spy" set this year would, I think, remind me of the new "Star Trek" movie you can catch in the theaters right now: It would be a series about starting over, about recovering from catastrophe and trying to fix things and correct courses in the process. I see them sympathetic to Russ/Gabe, and troubled by the number of their colleagues who committed crimes like torture under the previous regime in charge, and are now too busy trying to cover themselves to pay the kind of attention to the intelligence coming in that it really needs.

I also see Scotty and Kelly, all through these periods, sort of rolling their eyes in disgust at being aimed almost exclusively against Al Qaeda, as if there are no other threats to American interests. Then, of course, there are their missions in Iraq, which are even further from defending us against real threats.