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#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Corruption of the CIA
There's 22,000 people who work for the CIA. Most of them are patriotic Americans and really good public servants. The institution is corrupt because the higher ranks the institution. Mike Pompeo said something like this to me when I was there: "The entire upper bureaucracy of that agency are people who do not believe in the institutions of democracy" It's no mystery how that happened. We know the history.
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