Khama’s blue-eyed boy – Isaac Kgosi – has since rising to be the country’s spy chief not faced the kind of pressure he is reeling under at the moment where dirty deals of his agency are being spilled at will. It is clear that the country’s security is compromised as spy wars rage on, yet Government was warned. PHILLIMON MMESO reports. The tension that has been building between the state security agencies has now exploded into an open scuffle with moles and their tendencies being uncovered as rival agencies fight to discredit each other. Set protocol of what would otherwise qualify as classified information is no more being respected. In the process national security has been relegated to an afterthought as agencies go at each other, with Government having ignored earlier warnings about the dangers of the proliferation of intelligence agencies which are even armed with weapons of war. At the centre of the spy war are the Tourism Intelligence Services (TIS), the Directorate of Intelligence and Security Services (DISS) and the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) Military Intelligence. Tension has been brewing between the three spy agencies with the cause being the involvement of DISS and MI in anti-poaching activities…