[unishark]

I think there's plenty examples on the entire spectrum. Though I'd also say the ones that are seen as "too positive" like Jack Ryan, get criticism from the media even when they try to please both sides by talking of "fixing it from the inside"). Anyway, other examples of negative depictions:

In "2 guns" Bill Paxton played a psychopathic CIA agent who ran a contra-stye operation by squeezing drug lords for a cut. Awesome performance by the way.

In the recent version of "Dirk Gently" TV series, the CIA operation kidnaps psychics to experiment on them, and eliminates people who know too much or get in the way. Whenever the leader of the operation has a change of heart, he gets replaced with a new one with less scruples. "Mr. Priest" (another awesome character) is the CIA's psychopathic fixer brought in "for protocol violations".

[ochoseis]

Don’t forget Mission Impossible.