How much would America save if EVERYONE in the CIA accepted the “buyout” offer?

Photo above - "The name is Leitner. Cia Agent Felix Leitner" (Screenshot from the film "Dr. No" . . .)

“Mona – I just got an offer of 8 months of severance pay and COBRA insurance coverage if I quit by Friday. Can you call Alma and see if Fred got one too?"

Wow! Tulsi Gabbard isn’t even confirmed as CIA director yet (she just squeaked out of committee hearings yesterday) and already she owns the place. And she just fired everyone (see link below).

I urge to tune into CNN – quickly – and watch the talking heads explode while discussing this. Probably something like “If we do this, then the terrorists have won”, or “Tulsi is in collusion with the Russians. We're all gonna die . . . ”

Of course, in a regular week, CNN would be saying things like: “We have too many FBI agents, CIA agents, homeland security people, army, navy, Air Force and Marines. But not IRS agents – we definitely need 80,000 new GS 5 income tax auditors. To take down the 1% . . .”

Stop laughing. You know this is 100% true.

I WOULD be concerned . . . but then I read that the CIA has 22,000 agents (that we know of). And only CNN would suggest that every one of them is going to quit. I’m still waiting for an update on why the Air Traffic controllers didn’t resign en masse. Possibly something to do with the salary and benefits. And the fact that compared to what the private sector offers, working in the control tower actually is a pretty cool job. Better than being an Amazon picker or Uber driver. So I don’t think CIA agents are heading for the exits on Friday either.

If 10% of the CIA agents left, I’d consider it a win. Those would be the ones who “fails to meet expectations” quarterly performance reviews. Or working under a mandatory PIP (performance improvement plan). Or possibly those sitting quietly at their desks, shuffling through reams of reports. On people like camel herders/Sudanese rebels like Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. He's now the most dangerous man on earth, according to some theories. Um sorry, CIA . . . but Dagalo is not. That would be Chairman Xi of China or Vlad Putin of Russia.

We’re not going to invade the Sudan to take out a camel herder anyway. The last time the CIA ordered a hit in Sudan, it was that mistaken strike on an aspirin factory by President Clinton (1997). We probably do have too many CIA agents. Or at least the wrong ones.

If you DO NOT believe the USA should be the world's policeman, then we don’t need 20,000 CIA agents. That's the equivalent of 20 army battalions. And we might not need 800 military bases around the globe. In peacetime. But we don't have any bases yet in Sudan yet. Maybe the recent hype of Dagalo of Sudan is a stalking horse for another new base?

This is what happens when the deep state runs things. Every clerk, flack, spook and spear carrier becomes an essential lynchpin. So explain how every other country spends less? (Note to self: stop asking bad questions, you traitor!)

If Biden had proposed letting 10% of the CIA retire to pursue other interests, he would have been hailed as farsighted, a progressive. Same with all the other gun-toting federal employees. Did you know that thousands of IRS agents are armed at all times?

We live in a militarized society. Simply commuting between my apartment and office, I am under the jurisdiction of:

- City police (2 cities)

- County police

- State police

- Campus police

- US park police

- Immigration service agents

- US Marshalls service

- The National Guard

- The DEA

- The FBI

- The US secret service (when any past or current president, first lady, or son/daughter is visiting).

And if I traveled any further (like to the airport) I’d be subject to the command and control of customs agents, federal air marshals, Amtrak police . . .

So, I do expect some of those CIA agents to retire. A few might sign with CAA (like Biden did) to write their memoirs. Spy stories are thrilling - just ask John LeCarre or Ian Fleming. But any low-level agents who imagine they will get rich that way just prove why they weren’t very good at their day jobs. They lack real world smarts. Even if they did score well on the written CIA job application, and at the pistol range.

I’m just sayin’ . . .

CIA sends ‘buyout’ offers to entire workforce