CIA agent publicly chides White House for terror war

It’s a little like yelling an obscenity at a wedding. In the etiquette of Washington, it has always been an unwritten rule that members of the CIA don’t publicly criticize the people they work for – namely the US government.
From the agency’s inception some 50 years ago, the mantra of top officials in particular has been to provide “hard” information – estimates and analyses – not public opinions about their bosses’ policies or veracity.
Now a senior CIA official is violating the trench-coat oath – and roiling already sensitive relations between the White House and the nation’s top spy agency. It comes at a time of major reform of the nation’s intelligence apparatus.
CIA agent publicly chides White House for terror war | csmonitor.com

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