Central Intelligence Agency staff "buyouts"

*The Central Intelligence Agency offered [its staff "buyouts"], citing aim to bring agency in line with [new regime's] priorities, US media report.*

Making the whole staff hostile seems like a really foolish thing for an intelligence agency to do. Driving many agents to leave seems dumb too, since some will be angry enough to sell secrets to foreign countries.

Especially now that their country won't be the United States of constitutional rights that they used to be loyal to. Disobeying your country's rulers is not betrayal if they have betrayed your country already.

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