I fully understand that it's popular to portray US intelligence as full of bumbling incompetence due to ones politics That conflicts with the evidence availabl

I fully understand that it's popular to portray US intelligence as full of bumbling incompetence due to ones politics That conflicts with the evidence available. We know that in the last few years, CIA officers went to Italy and conducted an illegal operation that was trivially easy for Italian police to reconstruct. Why was it so easy? Because the CIA officers checked into airlines and hotels using their real names. Why did they do that? Because they wanted to collect the frequent flier points. This is an organization that clearly employs a lot of people who are...not skilled at spycraft. This is not a question of politics.