CIA suspends chief of Iran operations over workplace issues
Nathan Bedford wrote:
"The chief question which should concern us is whether this is a personality problem or a policy problem. The CIA wants the world to think that it is a personality problem which might indicate a systemic breakdown as alleged in the paragraph which says:
"According to a Los Angeles Times report in July, an internal CIA workplace survey in 2009 found that those who left the spy agency frequently cited bad management as a factor, particularly in the clandestine service. In interviews, former officers said they felt poor managers suffered no consequences.
"But what if the problem is not a personnel problem, not even a systemic personnel problem, but a policy problem which is being held out to the public to be a personnel problem? A policy problem indicates that there is a rift at the highest levels of the CIA over the proper policy toward Iran at a time when Iran is getting ever closer to a nuclear bomb. Is the rift between a professional CIA core and a left wing administration over the ongoing policy of appeasing Iran?
"If so, we have a very serious problem indeed.
"It is a problem, if it exists, made all the more difficult because of the necessity to maintain secrecy in a secret organization. Yet, a democracy demands some sort of oversight and that, typically, would fall on special committees in the Congress. But can we rely on Senate Democrats? Certainly not.
"Can we comfortably rely on House Republicans?
"I let the reader judge."
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