From what is listed in this article I don’t see a problem. What was it that the CIA did that is questionable? Especially for a spy agency?
IANAL, but as I understand it, the CIA is not legally permitted to operate on U.S. soil except in fairly narrow circumstances related to counter-espionage. They probably really did violate the law with a number of these (perfectly understandable and necessary) activities.
But that's not what the press cares about. Note the gratuitous use of the word "scandalous" in the first paragraph. To most of the Left, it's scandalous that there even is such a thing as the CIA. For them, this is just a nice juicy opportunity to pile on.
“What was it that the CIA did that is questionable?’
That after all that and expending billions of dollars, they failed to see the impending collapse of the USSR, left Castro in power, and permitted Jane Fonda to go about her life unimpeded.