An agent walks into a bar and sez………so on and so forth…….I will dispense with the jocularity…You Are Welcome!

There has been a wealth of criticism of the CIA over the years…..most of it is most likely well deserved.  And even more jokes have been made about them than any other government agency with the sole exception of the US Congress.  But why is it such a joke.  To begin with they have missed so many situations over the years….to be blunt…they have been wrong on many occasions.  And I do not mean moderately wrong….au contrare…….(is that French?)

Let’s look back shall we?  For some 40 years or so the CIA’s only focus was the USSR, all their resources were there to keep one step of the the Russians….then why did they totally miss the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?  They were caught flat footed.

As long as we are in the region of the planet……what about India achieving a nuclear bomb…they missed it.  And with all the problems India was having with Pakistan over the Kashmir region how did they sleep through Pakistan getting the capability for a nuclear bomb?  One would think the logical progression of events once India had the capability was that Pakistan would not be far behind…..but guess what…MISSED IT!

We click right along…minor regional incidents here and there and then the BIG ONE!  9/11….they were in the bathroom masturbating apparently because they missed this one also…….a devastating attack and they apparently had NO idea it was coming…..the fact that an ally of ours in Afghanistan, Masood, was killed the day before the attack….and still nothing new here……..

Move along nothing to see here.  So next they were given the task of Iraq and their “slam dunk” on the Iraqi WMDs….and we are still looking for them to this day…of course some may try and blame the Bush admin for that screw up….but personally, it falls squarely on the shoulders of the CIA.

For the next five years they spent a lot of their time trying to run down Osama…he was here and then he was there but he was never found….but they did do a Helluva job torturing people….and while they waterboarding captives they missed yet another situation……Georgia!  In 2008 Russia invaded Georgia (the country not the state) and the CIA was once again asleep at the wheel….they had NO idea it was coming.

Now let’s fast forward to 2014….the Russian situation in Ukraine.  It seems that while they were once again spending too much time in the restroom events caught them with their pants down……once again they missed a situation that could draw the US into another deadly situation…….

How many CIA agents does it take to change a light bulb?

100 analysts to determine what a light bulb is.