[maica]

I used to feel like the CIA was our security blanket....


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They did not see the collapse of the Soviet Union coming - end of their credibility for me.

Then the Clinton years probably distilled out most remaining agents who could not buy into the "diversity and sensitivity training" that took prominence in the agency. So we are left with a preponderance of partisans who value their leftist allegiance over their American allegiance.

Their behavior seems similar to what is happening in states where we now have Republican governors but lifetime-entrenched Democrat legislatures and bureaucracies. Serious nasty political warfare.

[Sam Hill]

"I used to feel like the CIA was our security blanket.... They did not see the collapse of the Soviet Union coming - end of their credibility for me. Then the Clinton years probably distilled out most remaining agents who could not buy into the "diversity and sensitivity training" that took prominence in the agency. So we are left with a preponderance of partisans who value their leftist allegiance over their American allegiance."

Let's not forget that the Frank Church (and John Kerry) hearings set out to gut all of the US intel agencies, most especially the CIA.

And they succeeded beautifully. The agencies never have fully recovered.