A couple of things about Michael Morell and the CIA.
First of all, the entire agency is fucked, but it's divided into 4 parts:
One division for support activities, one for technological and scientific work. Those are the divisions that keep the place going. In my experience, most of the people there just do their jobs.
Then there's the DO -- the spies on the ground. These people are interesting, and often spend much of their career abroad. In my experience, many of them don't really care about politics, they like their jobs.
Finally, the DI, the directorate of intelligence. This is where you find all the cucked SJW ivy league and other useless 4-year degree types who don't have any real life experience but are now tasked with analyzing and LEADING foreign policy and intelligence decisions. The DI is the heart of the rot and a useless piece of shit.
Historically many CIA leaders have been civilian or come out of the DO.
Michael Morell comes from the DI. He's a useless piece of shit.
I realize I am just a Joe Random on the Internet, but an acquaintance of mine was his personal assistant for some time before he became the interim DCIA. Leaving details sparse for obvious reasons, my friend loathed Morell. I had a few interactions with him and he was abrasive to staff, arrogant beyond all justification, and he was just a big government supremacist to his core.
Working at a place like CIA you get a feel for the type. There are the people who work at CIA because they're into spy shit and you can, potentially, do some really cool stuff that almost nobody in the world gets to do and almost nobody in the world knows about.
The second type is the corrupt Washington politicos. They are political to their core, and everything they do is to serve the GOVERNMENT, not the United States. Michael Morell is this.
Listen to Hannity on the radio occasionally, so I know he often talks about how the good average FBI officers are good people doing good work, but it's the administration who is politically corrupt?
I would say CIA is different. I think the Directorate of Intelligence, which is literally thousands of people, is just rotten to the core. I would eliminate it completely. Having some 20-something Princeton grad with a masters degree in Political Science from Georgetown trying to dictate foreign policy on Russia or Iraq or Afghanistan or whatever is a recipe for idiocy.
I met some based upper managers. These were generally people who had spent their careers abroad and had face-to-face experience in the field. One senior leader I met (and respected) had been on one of the last helicopters out of Saigon AND evacuated from Tehran in the 70s. That person didn't put up with any bullshit. Not pencil pushers sitting at a desk in McClean VA like Michael Morell.
I worked at CIA for a brief period of time 10+ years ago. I met some smart people and some good people, but none of them were analysts. It was also clear to me, literally from day 1 of orientation, that most CIA officers were more concerned with (a) THE CIA and (b) THE GOVERNMENT than they were actually doing the right or actually supporting the United States.
"The CIA sits at the head of the Intelligence Community circle, we are the first amongst equals, and we do what needs doing and that the others can't--or won't--do."
Orientation was two weeks of "rah rah, go CIA, here are some cool things we've done" and indoctrinating employees into being loyal to CIA. It's ingrained from day 1.
Hannity is probably a reptillian honestly or parasited by one of them. For some reason Trump Pardoned him and Lindsey Graham but executed their buddy John Mcain.
Please Read Bill Cooper's Behold a Pale Horse Everyone. Or get people to read it.
There are white hats in the CIA but they are rare.
that book was pretty useless, secret societies control our governments for their selfish needs, these societies themselves are controlled by reptilian aliens, and then what? he didn't offer anything useful except advising patriots not to attend family gatherings such as Thanksgiving dinner because the government might get you when you're stuffed and sleepy.
A couple of things about Michael Morell and the CIA.
First of all, the entire agency is fucked, but it's divided into 4 parts:
One division for support activities, one for technological and scientific work. Those are the divisions that keep the place going. In my experience, most of the people there just do their jobs.
Then there's the DO -- the spies on the ground. These people are interesting, and often spend much of their career abroad. In my experience, many of them don't really care about politics, they like their jobs.
Finally, the DI, the directorate of intelligence. This is where you find all the cucked SJW ivy league and other useless 4-year degree types who don't have any real life experience but are now tasked with analyzing and LEADING foreign policy and intelligence decisions. The DI is the heart of the rot and a useless piece of shit.
Historically many CIA leaders have been civilian or come out of the DO.
Michael Morell comes from the DI. He's a useless piece of shit.
I realize I am just a Joe Random on the Internet, but an acquaintance of mine was his personal assistant for some time before he became the interim DCIA. Leaving details sparse for obvious reasons, my friend loathed Morell. I had a few interactions with him and he was abrasive to staff, arrogant beyond all justification, and he was just a big government supremacist to his core.
Working at a place like CIA you get a feel for the type. There are the people who work at CIA because they're into spy shit and you can, potentially, do some really cool stuff that almost nobody in the world gets to do and almost nobody in the world knows about.
The second type is the corrupt Washington politicos. They are political to their core, and everything they do is to serve the GOVERNMENT, not the United States. Michael Morell is this.
Updoot for the information, even if this sounds like a little too much like the CIA version of Hannity's "rank and file".
Listen to Hannity on the radio occasionally, so I know he often talks about how the good average FBI officers are good people doing good work, but it's the administration who is politically corrupt?
I would say CIA is different. I think the Directorate of Intelligence, which is literally thousands of people, is just rotten to the core. I would eliminate it completely. Having some 20-something Princeton grad with a masters degree in Political Science from Georgetown trying to dictate foreign policy on Russia or Iraq or Afghanistan or whatever is a recipe for idiocy.
I met some based upper managers. These were generally people who had spent their careers abroad and had face-to-face experience in the field. One senior leader I met (and respected) had been on one of the last helicopters out of Saigon AND evacuated from Tehran in the 70s. That person didn't put up with any bullshit. Not pencil pushers sitting at a desk in McClean VA like Michael Morell.
I worked at CIA for a brief period of time 10+ years ago. I met some smart people and some good people, but none of them were analysts. It was also clear to me, literally from day 1 of orientation, that most CIA officers were more concerned with (a) THE CIA and (b) THE GOVERNMENT than they were actually doing the right or actually supporting the United States.
"The CIA sits at the head of the Intelligence Community circle, we are the first amongst equals, and we do what needs doing and that the others can't--or won't--do."
Orientation was two weeks of "rah rah, go CIA, here are some cool things we've done" and indoctrinating employees into being loyal to CIA. It's ingrained from day 1.
Hannity is probably a reptillian honestly or parasited by one of them. For some reason Trump Pardoned him and Lindsey Graham but executed their buddy John Mcain.
Please Read Bill Cooper's Behold a Pale Horse Everyone. Or get people to read it.
There are white hats in the CIA but they are rare.
that book was pretty useless, secret societies control our governments for their selfish needs, these societies themselves are controlled by reptilian aliens, and then what? he didn't offer anything useful except advising patriots not to attend family gatherings such as Thanksgiving dinner because the government might get you when you're stuffed and sleepy.
It's depressing that this is the least believable part of your comment.