From Secrecy News...
CIA RECRUITMENT FLOURISHES
The Central Intelligence Agency is in several respects a wounded agency. Its authority is diminished, and its credibility oneverything from weapons of mass destruction to information classification policy is in tatters, leaving it an object of derision.
See, for example, "CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years," which is intended to be a satire, in The Onion,November 30: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43014
But there are still plenty of people who are eager to work there, more than the Agency can even consider hiring. See "It's no secret: CIA scouting for recruits" by John Diamond, USAToday, November 23: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-11-22-cia-recruit_x.htm
In recent years, "We had 100,000 applicants for CIA," said Rep. Randy"Duke" Cunningham (R-CA) at an October 19 hearing of the House Intelligence Committee. "You know how many got looked at? Thirty thousand. Seventy thousand never even got a letter back. That's bad."
Speaking of bad, Rep. Cunningham, who was an intelligence subcommittee chairman, resigned in disgrace from Congress onNovember 28 after admitting that he accepted millions of dollars inbribes and evaded taxes.The public policy consequences of such gross corruption at the highest levels of the intelligence oversight process have barely begun to be assessed.
Rep. Cunningham was a reliable advocate of unbending secrecy inintelligence matters. On at least two occasions, in 1997 and 2000, he voted against public disclosure of the aggregate intelligence budget figure-- since that would damage national security.
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