More proof the CIA should be abolished and a new agency started...secretly if possible. It’s not an intelligence agency: there’s practically no feet on the ground, an over-reliance on satellites and info from foreign intelligence sources, and it’s full of State Dept-type morons.
I have regular conversations with a retired CIA operative who worked in the Reagan administration. His take is that the CIA is a communist front supporting radical leftist agendas world wide. The consistent failure of the CIA to undermine the activities of leftist tyrants is symptomatic. They are, however, profoundly effective at subverting budding democracies that are based on constitutional law.
BTW. the term “liberal intellectual” is an oxymoron.