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I am not, nor have I ever been part of the Intelligence Community. I have no direct experience or knowledge of conditions there. So take this with whatever amount of salt you want.

One of the greatest mistakes made by ‘W’ was to fail to replace those appointees who “serve at the pleasure of the president” in the CIA and State with people whose loyalty was to, if not the country, at least to his conception of the nature of world power. Instead, they were loyal only to the Democratic Party and the Left.

I will take great pleasure in seeing them in the dock in any show trial, if they are thrown under the bus. However, I do know that it will be the loyal and hard working defenders of the country who will bear the brunt of that sin of commission.

It is only anecdotal evidence of the morale; but it happens that two of the friends of my children both work(ed) for the Company. One was an honors graduate of MIT, who was asked to join. One graduated from another college and applied. Both were influenced by 9/11. I have no idea what they did/do, other than they are not field agents. I was given to understand that they were well regarded in their evaluations.

The MIT graduate left a couple of months ago to pursue another advanced degree. The other is feeling burnt out. I think he will leave within a year. It may just be burnout for both, but my feeling from knowing them is that they are less than enamored by the “leadership” they are/were subjected to.

This is not going to end well.

Subotai Bahadur