CIA lawyers, Winnie the Pooh, and more [CIA LIBERALS]

The Weekly Standard ^ | 03/10/07 | The Scrapbook

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CIA lawyers, Winnie the Pooh, and more. by The Scrapbook 3/10/2007, Volume 012, Issue 26

Valerie Plame's CIA

Great news for unemployed, pothead liberal law students: The CIA is hiring, and you're the target demographic! We refer you to the website of the CIA's Office of General Counsel (https://www.cia.gov/ogc) where you will find featured an excerpt from the book America's Greatest Places to Work With a Law Degree. The book, in turn, describes the following testimonials as coming "from lawyers in the [Office of General Counsel]."

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There are many, many misconceptions people have about working for the CIA. Actually, people are surprised when they hear that the CIA has a General Counsel's Office at all! . . . Another misconception is that the CIA is extraordinarily conservative. That's totally not the case. I'd say that most people here would consider themselves very liberal. . . .

'Another big misconception has to do with who gets into the CIA. There's a totally wrong-headed picture in people's minds that if you've ever smoked a joint, you can't get into the CIA. That's not true. Maybe you'd say, "Oh, when I was a freshman in college, I'd light up a doobie, I drank a lot, but when I got to law school, I grew up, and I don't do that anymore." That's not going to remove you from consideration. . . . There are a lot of people who self-select out, thinking that because of some old, casual drug use they won't get in. That's a shame.

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"I'd say that most people here would consider themselves very liberal. . . ."

I don't subscribe to Weekly Standard (probably should!) so if anyone else can read the rest of this to see what we are missing, that would be great.

Interesting how some unnamed liberals from CIA's lawyerly brigade are so confident in assuring young lawyers that they will find lots of very liberal people in the CIA, or especially in the Office of General Counsel.........

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p.s. Granted, the comments are anonymous, but the OGC saw fit to put them on its own website to promote the CIA as a great place to work for die-hard leftists......fwiw, if someone in a federal agency admits that most people there are "very liberal" that is an understatement. What such people consider "moderate" and "middle-of-the-road" is merely the usual support for every liberal cause of the past 30+ years. Someone who is "very" liberal according to their own lights is what normal people would consider radical left, willing to break the law and undermine the government in any way so long as it seems to further pet causes. This is where we get Valerie Pflame, Mary McCarthy, Larry Johnson, Ray McGovern, all the other VIPS scumbags, etc.