The CIA is as bureacratic as any other part of the government. They have RULES. I Know a couple of people who worked for the CIA, and many others who had to deal with them on a proffessioinal basis. The latter are pretty much uniformly contemptuous of them. But while they might not hire him as an officer, they might use him as asset. But I don't think he had enough of the right skills to be useful to them.
“But I don’t think he had enough of the right skills to be useful to them”
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Useful Idiots don’t usually have many skills; their usefulness stems from their intense ideology. To be useful to the CIA, one must be a confirmed Globalist and Marxist. - Barack fits like a glove.