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.
everything they do is to serve the GOVERNMENT themselves, not the United States.
FIFY. In my experience, these "senior leader" types love the government because their position within it affords them power and prestige. As you say, they don't give two shits about the US, but I'll go even further and say they don't even give two shits about the agency they work for except to the extent that it serves as a vehicle to advance their own power and self-interest.
What is truly fascinating to me is that most of these people expose themselves for what they are fairly early in their career, yet no one seems to stop them.
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.
FIFY. In my experience, these "senior leader" types love the government because their position within it affords them power and prestige. As you say, they don't give two shits about the US, but I'll go even further and say they don't even give two shits about the agency they work for except to the extent that it serves as a vehicle to advance their own power and self-interest.
What is truly fascinating to me is that most of these people expose themselves for what they are fairly early in their career, yet no one seems to stop them.
Yeah, I think you're totally right. Bureaucrat sociopaths.