I wonder if it’s still in place after 8 years of BHO.
Rule in place. And the Peace Corps carries a similiar rule. If you ever worked for the CIA, you will never work for them. If you worked for military intelligence, you need to have been out for at least ten years.
In my whole life, I’ve only come across two folks who did a PC ‘tour’. One guy who did a couple of months in the Peace Corps, and was ‘invited’ to leave early (they had a strong opinion against drinking). As he said they are more strict than a Baptist Church on drinking habits. I think for 99-percent of people, this would be the wrong volunteer work to get into.
The second was A kid from my home-town high school went off after college, with his wife and did a year in some Asian Peace Corps position. They had trouble upon returning to the region (rural area in the South)...trying to readjust to local landscape.