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#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy

Lex Fridman Podcast

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What's the Good and the Bad?

The president who's the chief customer, the executive to the CIA, when the president doesn't want to hear what CIA has to say, he's not going to listen. For the four years that President Trump was the president, basically everybody at CIA, their career was put on pause. Some people voluntarily left their career there because they found themselves working for a single customer that didn't want what they had to produce. It also didn't help that CIA stepped outside of their confines, right? CIA is supposed to collect foreign intelligence and not comment on domestic matters. That's all something the FBI could have handled by itself. The Justice Department could havehandled by itself. And when they did,

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