The answer is simple to me. CIA should be a spy agency only. All covert ops should be given to the Pentagon and Analysis handed to the NSA. Congress should pass legislation stating the head of CIA has to have been a station chief for at least ten years. No more political flunkies. Fire everyone else.
During WWII General MacArthur refused to let OSS operate in the Pacific theater because it was filled with communists.
The OSS was the precursor to the CIA.
I didn’t know that.
Also, The director of the CIA, George Tenet, told George W. Bush that Iraq having WMDs were a “slam dunk.” After we went in and the media started questioning Iraq having WMDs, the CIA was no where to be found to support Bush. It seemed almost like a set up to me.