Never worked in the IC I see. Good, here's a small primer. The reason why we got caught flat-footed on the fall of the USSR was because of Aldrich Ames. He compromised billions of dollars of programs for his 400K house. Plame built a program worth some untold amount of money and now those assests are gone. That's your money and your security gone.
Sure its not a scandal?
And this conspiracy is going to be revealed how?