“Since the Cold War ended, the CIA has essentially been running its own foreign policy, one that has been extremely damaging to US national security.”
Try since the early 1950s.
Seems former CIA Director Bush becoming President really lifted the brakes off and it went into hyperdrive. Notice how frequently the CIA drags us into wars these days - they don’t even bother waiting for the previous one to end before starting a new one. Every last conflict the US has had since Desert Storm has been a CIA operation in one way or another, and none of them have had a positive impact on security.
Yes, I saw your post with the Harry Truman op-ed about CIA earlier.