SPYING: How CIA Culture Allowed a Rogue Mission Gone Wrong. “In American culture, the words ‘rogue CIA mission’ call to mind squads of agents ready to take out targets, run guns, and rig elections—often for agendas too unsavory to be public. But even if rogue agents were amoral, at least they were thought to be capable. Recent allegations have upset the established idea of a rogue CIA operation, and this new version is somehow more insidious: This time, it’s amateurs playing a global spy game and getting people hurt.”

Like the Secret Service, their competence has lately come into question.