I've always realized the problems with the one worlders in the State Dept., but when did the C.I.A become such a bastion of leftism?
It isn't a bastion of leftism. That's a smear.
[Vince Cannistraro, former CIA counterterrorism chief] said there is concern within the agency that Vice President Cheney is ordering changes to avenge leaks to the media indicating there was no connection between former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida.
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595105713,00.html
Can you spell Clinton? Carter?
The head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission whose term just ended after 25 years of foul racist leftism was appointed by Carter.
It's not the grunts in the field (but people are not chosen based on their politics, so some of them may be lefties), but they do not leak info to the press.
It is the political appointees who engage in that sort of game. (Of course, every once in a while a grunt, like Rick Ames, goes all the way bad, but he should have been spotted long before he was.)
but when did the C.I.A become such a bastion of leftism?
Between 1992 and 2000.