[Capriole]

I live in an area where a disproportionately high number of people are intelligence analysts or have some other connection with intelligence work. Several of them have separately told me that there are reasons we only hear about the CIA's failures. For one thing, they want the bad guys to think the CIA is run entirely by bumbling jerks, so they will be underestimated; they don't try to cover up most of the snafus. Also, some of the so-called mistakes aren't mistakes at all. The successes are never publicized.

[Just mythoughts]

Good post. Thus being the case, hard to "tout" one's success, is know by the liberals who have decided to politicize our intel gathering.

Appears that many have been frozen out on that oh so cherished intel and are "running" in the dark. The politicals are acting very scared, as though they have something to HIDE.

[CJ Wolf]

true dat!

[HungarianGypsy]

FBI works the same way. I remember during a murder investigation the FBI told the media one thing, while telling the family, "here's what's really going on." It was funny to see the media patting itself on the back all along.

[rabidralph]

Thanks, for letting that cat out of the bag/sarc

[hinckley buzzard]

some of the so-called mistakes aren't mistakes at all. The successes are never publicized

Yeah. Well, eventually the results speak for themselves, don't they. And our intel has't exactly been hitting it out of the park lately.

[mdmathis6]

The issue for the CIA playing games like that is that they’ll lose Americans’ trust when in fact they really need to maintain such trust. Recruitment will become hard..as evidenced in last 2 year’s ad campaigns for new CIA workers. The CIA have never had to go public like that before. It speaks volumes. Wokeness also has something to do with it. The people they really need are shying away from intel and military service because they don’t like immorality.