The problem with replacing all the top CIA guys is that you'd only end up replacing them with other CIA guys...
And they all lie. And when I say "all" I mean most. And when I say "most" I mean all. And when I say "black" I mean "white". And vice versa. They don't call their world a "hall of mirrors" for nothing. It is the nature of the business.
And it has driven at least a few of them completely paranoid crazy.
I'm not sure how the Brits get around this fundamental issue with MI-6....Perhaps they don't.
Anyway, the last President who talked about truly substantive change to the CIA was a fellow named Kennedy. Remember him?
After the Bay of Pigs JFK was so pissed off about being lied to by his "intelligence" agency that he wanted to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the wind."
And we saw how that worked out in the end...
For the past 67 years we've let this exclusive little club do whatever it thought best to protect US interests, and by that I mean US business interests (often oil related) all over the world. This would include overthrowing governments, assassinations, torture, and all sorts of other cool stuff. Since it is, nominally, part of our government, when its fuck-ups become too obvious, it will, on occasion, allow its wrists to be slapped by Congress. Then it goes back to doing whatever it wants, under the pretense of "protecting" us.
And should you complain too much about this, and be in a position to possibly do something about it, well, they have ways of dealing with that, too.
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