I spent decades as a covert C_A operative - this is my new mission. Brad Johnson, former C_A and counterintel expert... The fact that the IC not only takes political positions but promotes certain policies, shows stunning incompetence but even worse a complete lack of understanding of why we even have an IC. A key indicator of concerns centers around the CIA’s so-called “modernization” plan that was implemented under the previous administration by former CIA director John Brennan. Brennan has spent much of his time since leaving the CIA doing television and radio programs and has revealed himself to be a bitter partisan and critic of President Trump. Many of us who devoted our lives to the clandestine service as CIA operations officers were stunned to hear Mr. Brennan announce that based on his modernization plan, he no longer regards the CIA as being in the espionage business. “We don’t steal secrets,” Mr. Brennan astonishingly stated in an interview with NPR. https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/04/i-spent-decades-as-a-covert-cia-operative-this-is-my-new-mission/ I don’t trust any 🤡, but maybe there’s one good one left.  Hopefully this is him.  We’ll see.