that statement from excerpt is totally false - directors from both parties? Who would that be other than Brennan?
Well, Hayden was ostensibly a Pubbie.
It seems to me that the “Board” is a bone-toss to PR.
Bush, on his way out, wanted the voters to see some “action” regarding the “out-of-control” CIA.
A fun little group for people to put on their resume or advance upwardly.
CIA directors kept it because...meh, optics.