[red-iron-pine]

You left out French and UK intelligence, and their long history of colonial and post-colonial fuckery.

Singling out the CIA is like trying to give speeding tickets to NASCAR drivers; they're all gonna get one, the CIA is just going the fastest.

[ethbr0]

The Wikipedia pages for various national intelligence organizations are hilarious concise.

Good retirement hobby: summarizing everything from dead tree niche books to the web.

[hereforphone]

Excellent analogy, thanks.