All of the corruption seems to sprout directly from the State Department.
The State Department has been little more than an arm of the CIA ever since the beginning of Bill Clinton's second term. Prior to that, the CIA only had the Asian desks at State in their pocket. Bill Clinton finished the job.
Anything you hear from the State Department is either testing the waters for something the CIA wants to do and is checking how above board they can be, or a rationalization of some already ongoing CIA operation.
JMHo