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Sorry - I just buy that think leftists have ever worked at the CIA. Disgruntled bureaucrats, sure. The occasional Aldrich Ames, sure. But liberals just don't join the CIA, nor are they wanted at Langley.

When I was in graduate school I used to get recruiting letters from the CIA on a monthly basis. I am sure everyone else did as well. They were always looking for analysts, linguists etc. Most of the guys in my dept (poli sci) were leftists, including me at that time. I know quite a few guys who took jobs in DC upon graduation cause they didn't want to go into academia and teach. Same thing in the State Department, and this was under Reagan. All they had to do was keep their mouths shut about their politics and they got hired. I don't even think that was a consideration during background checks at all.

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Sorry - I just buy that think leftists have ever worked at the CIA. Disgruntled bureaucrats, sure. The occasional Aldrich Ames, sure. But liberals just don't join the CIA, nor are they wanted at Langley.

Keep in mind that it would not take many hardcore leftists to cause a problem.

Suppose for a moment that the breakdown of the CIA is slightly more conservative then the country as a whole say 50% conservative, 25% moderate, 25% liberal.

With the current radicalization of the left, how many of those liberals are within the Moore-ite fever swamps? 1 in 5? That still gives 5% of the organization believing that Bush must be removed by any means necessary...

Remember how the BBC almost brought down Blair with one member of the British intelligence community (even though they exaggerated his importance and put words in his mouth)?