If they do a decent job of detecting and eliminating threats, I don’t care much.
Two of the main characters in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy were butt buddies off and on. One of them became a traitor, and his former butt buddy, who was seriously injured because of his betrayal, ended up killing him. OK. Such things do happen even in the best of spy novels.
But if they’re specifically looking for trannies in Israeli intelligence, it will not end well in real life.
I loved those movies. The Chek affair was afoul. The scene with Alec Guinness interviewing him in the car was remarkable. I’ve heard Moshe Dayan watched those movies over and over.
I think the new hires are specifically designed to piss off and drive out the serious people. It’s all make believe these days.