The trouble with CIA is that it is all too often wrong. They told Eisenhower that Fidel Castro was an agrarian reformer. They failed to predict the breakup of the Soviet Union, even after the fall of the wall. They told George Bush and Colin Powell that Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons were a slam-dunk. In actual fact, Saddam didn't have a nuclear program, which we found out AFTER invading the country. They didn't have even a single agent on the ground inside Saddam's Iraq. CIA attempted to destabilize the Bush Administration by creating the Valerie Plame affair. CIA agents still work out of embassies, which is like hanging a "kick me" sign on the back of your trench coat. CIA announced the Iranians did NOT have a nuclear program, just in time to scuttle some proposed sanctions. CIA leaked the story about NSA listening into Osama bin Laden's satellite phone to the New York Times. It took CIA ten years to finger Osama bin Laden.
With a track record like this, who in their right mind would believe anything CIA reported?
Besides, America's best intelligence comes from NSA (who intercepts enemy communications) and the Air Force (who flies recon satellites).
CIA's budget is famously secret. CIA appropriations are disguised somewhere deep inside the federal budget, so we don't know just how much money they spend each year. But what ever they spend, it really ain't worth it, 'cause what ever CIA produces is suspect, 'cause it comes from an outfit with a long and well documented history of brain death.
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