I think you may have misunderstood, comrade. I'm not attempting in any way to defend the CIA -- I said that it has both incompetent and competent agents, successful operations and ones that seem like they're a literal joke, and if we try and say the CIA is only competent or incompetent we're going to make mistakes and miss opportunities.

My feelings in pictogram form:

:amerikkka:

:M16: :cia: :bottle:

:match: :luau: :liberty-weeping:

:sicko-yes: :left-unity-3: :no-police: :gui-better: :acab: