I have mixed thoughts on the CIA overall. There are plenty of folks who disagree. I wouldn’t argue with the idea there are too many thinkers and not enough doers though.
Come on old friend, you know we don’t have enough people in the field compared to the thinkers sitting on their duffs in a nice office somewhere. The OSS and the FBI were never in agreement and the same has been true of the CIA and the FBI. Always fighting over “their” turf.From recent decades shortcomings, I think the FBI needs some housecleaning too. I equate the mess we’re in with the idea we can win everything with air strikes and ignore the fact that nothing beats BOOTS ON THE GROUND. Why have we allowed our Military to be decimated by the present Administration when we have more threats than we have had since WWII? The Cold War was chump change compared to our present situation. Thank God we got Trump! Shake up and ship out every vestige of left wing thinking from every agency they have touched. Ship Brennan and company out on Jan. 21st.