CIA admits that China and Iran have executed entire networks of their spies

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[–]thefirststoneThat's my purse! I don't know you! 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This is good for US dissidents as a less competent deep state means the regime will be less effective in pursuing its agenda

Have you considered that expiring excess staff is part of their agenda?

Play the wounded animal, let our "mortal enemies" draw blood. That eliminates the threat from possible rogue trustees. Meanwhile, fill your ranks with easily-manipulated cannon fodder who operate the tools of war really doing the job.

Downsizing done another way might raise conflict from within the ranks.

[–]TheJamesRocket 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They wouldn't let their spy networks get destroyed on purpose. Thats nonsense.

The CIA doesn't have money problems, either: They have multiple sources of revenue outside of their government budget. Remember, they ran the opium fields in Afghanistan. The CIA was very unhappy when the U.S. military withdrew.

There is no secret plan at work here, they just got outsmarted.

[–]thefirststoneThat's my purse! I don't know you! 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There's more than one front in their war. Conflict with the FBI seems to peak through here and there. They don't need the same types of spy networks to fight that.

I just don't buy disclosing this so widely without ulterior motive. And the NYT is intimate with the decision-makers involved.

Contrary to the tweeter's thoughts, I do buy the idea they're all incompetent. But they also have plans and move all at once. And the trend since Bush has been to look weak, bumbling, and fragile in affairs that make no ultimate difference.