"Not to mention how other current intel assets and people we try to recruit in the future will take this revelation--e.g. The US will not or cannot keep its secrets, so my life may be on the line."
Amazing effort by our media and people inside the intelligence community to damage US intelligence interests.
Why exactly is the CIA viewed as being adversarial to the WH? what is the political background there?
I think there are several things that are involved in the CIA hostility to the WH:
1.WH attempt to reform CIA after WMD debacle by appointing an outsider to head the Agency. Some heads have rolled and others have retired.
2.An entrenched group in the Agency who might be called 'the enervators.' They always find ways to fuzz up the intel with conflicting information so that nothing can be done but generate more reports.
3.A true lack of qualified Mid East experts and Humint personnel in the area was exposed by several identified intel errors including WMD which led to 1 above. So there are some who are threatened by this exposure.
4. There are some who feel that if the WH asks questions about intel that this creates pressure on the Agency to meet WH expectations--although investigations by Congress haven't turned up anyone who says they were directly pressured.