I spent several years working withe them in the sandbox and I have been counseled by my officers that I need to tone down my rhetoric concerning them for the good of my career.
They are the most arrogant bunch of know nothing self-congratulating pieces of idiocy I have ever had to work with.
Many of them were non-shaving graduates of colleges and universities who felt that their ability to pass the CIA training gave them the authority and expertise to tell me and other senior personnel how “to really do our job”.
They killed more sources, laid waste to more DoD programs and stole more stuff then any bunch of Taliban or Al Queda ever did. I was actually held back by some of my team members at one place because I had entered their compound with an M4 and was going to rid the world of one of their stupid smiling faces after a stellar piece of betrayal.
If the CIA says that something is black, immediately assume it is white until you can verify.
The CIA employees MUST take a polygraph if requested. I recall this from back when the Plame situation arose. That would be a good start in purging the traitors.
Bravo, sir !
Had the chance to interview with them when I was completing graduate school but declined. A friend of mine did and he said it was a very interesting interview. He was told that unlike the FBI or other government agencies they didn’t look for honest people with clean backgrounds. They looked for people who might be law abiding on American shores but had no moral qualms about performing criminal acts offshore. I’d suspect that as a result they just ended up hiring a lot of potential criminals.