In The Good Shepard, Joe Pesci plays an Italian mobster who meets with a CIA counterintelligence officer played by Matt Damon. The officer resume includes an old New England family, Yale and a membership in Skull & Bones. This one scene is a brief, brilliant portrayal of the gap between the leadership and the American people.
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