Despite funding the CIA with many billions of dollars every year there are many surprises. This isn't because the CIA is incompetent. No politicians don't want

Despite funding the CIA with many billions of dollars every year there are many surprises. This isn't because the CIA is incompetent. No politicians don't want want to hear what the CIA has to say. The US intelligence services isn't run by some tinker tailor spy spy master. It's just another Washington bureaucrat playing politics. They train people who speak the language and absorb the culture and their reports are ignored.