[reagency]

I prefer an incompetent adversary over a competent one.

[PakG1]

How about ally? Or is it so bad now that the CIA is an adversary, rather than an ally? I am sad that's actually a question.

[x1798DE]

I'm not sure that the CIA has ever been a real ally of the people in general, but to the extent that they are, it's similar to the inclusion of the USSR in the Allied Powers during World War II.