The one, critical change needed by the CIA is much like what the US Army did a long time ago.
It used to be that all of the top officers in the Army were West Point graduates, but today, the vast majority are ROTC graduates from across the country. West Pointers are a decided minority.
As a result, the Army benefited by no longer being stuck in an institutional rut, their officer ranks filled with gentlemen who all shared the same outlook and education in military affairs. Instead, there was a revolution in innovative and unorthodox thinking—just what is needed to keep the US Army at its top game. Anymore, West Pointers enter the Army at a disadvantage, and must prove themselves over again to the ROTC graduates, if they expect to be respected for their leadership and initiative, and not be seen as someone who cannot be allowed to operate independently.
In the case of the CIA, it is plagued by its institutional rut of having much of its leadership come from only two schools, Yale and Harvard. For decades this has haunted the institution to the point where a conscious effort must be made to *exclude* graduates from these two schools, because they have failed to accomplish their mission.
By comparison, they are in disgrace, their failures amounting to what would be several lost major battles by the Army in a bloody war. Just replacing their commander is not enough. Their command and general staff need to be purged and retired, replaced by the initiative and innovation from graduates of other schools across the United States.
Yale and Harvard, just like West Point, had a good run, but what they produce is no longer satisfactory to manage an effective Central Intelligence Agency. They have lost a few battles too many.
I find your statements very accurate, it would please me to see other departments cleaned out and fresh people come in.
We have indeed become a country, with lots of rotten people in the important places.
LOL, My opinion.