Things I've learned about the CIA

1. It's just another bureaucracy. And Porter Goss was like every other Bush appointee, an ideologue incompatible with professional staff, driving them to quit in droves. The next number two, Stephen R. Kappes, is one such former spook.

2. It's just another cesspool of filth. Like everything touched by the GOP in recent years, the CIA is full of corruption and unseemly activities:

Other Goss lieutenants at the agency also appear to be on the way out, following Goss, who resigned Friday. Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, brought in by Goss as the CIA's executive director -- its No. 3 official -- announced to agency staff in an e-mail yesterday that he plans to resign as well. The FBI said it is investigating whether Foggo steered contracts to a friend, Brent R. Wilkes. The CIA confirmed last week that Foggo attended private poker games with Wilkes at a Washington hotel.

3. I don't know much about the military. What's this about the next CIA director being a vice admiral of the Air Force? Isn't that kind of a different agency? I don't get it, it just seems odd to have your chief officer have two jobs.