Most of the analytic side of the CIA is waaay more liberal than most people suspect.
it’s a little bit like a college campus.
Why didn’t they foresee the fall of the Berlin Wall..?
well because for long time it was taken for granted in many quarters there at the CIA that eventually, yes, Marxism was the future and it would win.
THAT is why they were surprised.
Brennan fit right in, there, and he was not so exceptional at all.
good post, I agree