Imprimis: CIA, what's wrong with it and how to fix it

Read this article this evening.  Very good.  Explains what is wrong with the CIA and how to fix it.

I hope president Trump CAN do this.  They are not what they were, they're political, incompetent and lazy Bureaucrats.

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/why-the-cia-no-longer-works-and-how-to-fix-it/

Forget for a moment all the gadgets and technology. The core business of the CIA is recruiting spies inside target organizations, handling them securely, and producing intelligence for policymakers in Washington, D.C.

At its heart espionage is a very old business. Its essence has remained unchanged for thousands of years. And it is not a science—it is an art. There is a reason intelligence officers talk about tradecraft. Espionage requires innate skills. Not everyone can do it.

CIA case officers may be called upon to do many things during their careers, but when it comes down to it, their primary job is spotting, assessing, developing, and recruiting spies. That means getting close to people who are often very objectionable, figuring out what makes them tick, and convincing them to help you by betraying their colleagues and their countries and to trust that you can keep them alive while they do so.


All of this requires someone who has impeccable gut instincts, can make decisions on the fly, and can navigate through a maze of mirrors and tolerate extremely high degrees of ambiguity.

The people in charge of our government, including those who run the CIA, have forgotten this. They have done their best to turn the CIA into just another federal agency. Recruiters no longer search for intangibles or focus on the key psychological traits critical to success in the world of spying. They look at academic degrees, existing levels of language proficiency, and increasingly at things like skin color and sexual orientation.

Training has been softened and is increasingly formbook in nature. We act as if anyone can be taught to conduct espionage—as if this is no longer an arcane craft to be practiced by a select group of unique people.

We have buried operations under endless layers of middle management. Case officers in the field may spend days just trying to complete the requisite paperwork for a single asset meeting.

In Washington, the management ranks are increasingly filled with individuals who seldom travel far from Langley and have never demonstrated that they can accomplish anything..

https://revolver.news/2024/03/new-evidence-shows-the-cia-has-turned-on-the-american-people/

Former Rep. Liz Cheney’s January 6 Committee suppressed evidence that President Donald Trump pushed for 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the nation’s capital, a previously hidden transcript obtained by The Federalist shows.

Cheney and her committee falsely claimed they had “no evidence” to support Trump officials’ claims the White House had communicated its desire for 10,000 National Guard troops. In fact, an early transcribed interview conducted by the committee included precisely that evidence from a key source. The interview, which Cheney attended and personally participated in, was suppressed from public release until now.

Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato’s first transcribed interview with the committee was conducted on January 28, 2022. In it, he told Cheney and her investigators that he overheard White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows push Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to request as many National Guard troops as she needed to protect the city.

He also testified President Trump had suggested 10,000 would be needed to keep the peace at the public rallies and protests scheduled for January 6, 2021. Ornato also described White House frustration with Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller’s slow deployment of assistance on the afternoon of January 6, 2021.

Not only did the committee not accurately characterize the interview, they suppressed the transcript from public review. On top of that, committee allies began publishing critical stories and even conspiracy theories about Ornato ahead of follow-up interviews with him. Ornato was a career Secret Service official who had been detailed to the security position in the White House.

Cheney frequently points skeptics of her investigation to the Government Publishing Office website that posted, she said, “transcripts, documents, exhibits & our meticulously sourced 800+ page final report.” That website provides “supporting documents” to the claims made by Cheney and fellow anti-Trump enthusiasts.


So, why would they do all this? Well, some think the Deep State saw a perfect chance to corner President Trump and his supporters, leveraging the massive crowd and their election frustration to stage what would later be labeled an “insurrection.” And that’s where the FBI and, shockingly, the CIA step in.

hannity likes to say that he knows good people at the FIB. That only some the top are the bad guys...no...that's not the case. If you are employed by the FIB in any capacity and you sit by and let the corruption and lies happen then you are complicit and just as guilty as the ones doing it.

ALL need to be fired and the whole thing fixed.

The problem is one that no one can fix.

The problem is LACK OF MORALITY. In the ranks; in the officer ranks; in the Congress and in the lying seditious mediuh.

There is NO solution to that - there is only some sort of moral re-awakening. I suspect it will require government collapse to do that. And I'm not sure that the moral awakening that comes out of it will be those of Judaism or Christianity.

A thousand years of darkness looms. It's essentially chance, whether people can beat it back or not.