CIA Recruitment on the Radio -- What????

Yep, folks. File this under more "Stuff I Just Don't Get".

And I don't know 'bout you, but I don't really feel any safer, now that I know this:

There are CIA Recruitment ads on radio (610 WTVN), complete with martial music and "be-the-best-you-can-be" kinda crap, website address, AND they tout that The Company is now an "Equal Opportunity Employer".

Wow.

Again, don't know 'bout you guys, but I grew up with the John Le Carre' "Smiley" novels, Graham Greene, Frederick Forsyth, Edward S. Aarons, the best: Adam Hall's "Quiller" and more, and I don't see my CIA operatives as average people.

I want my spy to be a 150+ IQ MIT grad, recruited by his/her professor with a whisper-in-the-ear out of an IVY League Masters program.

I want them to be ultra-smart persons of questionable ethics and morals who don't mind waterboarding the occasional terrorist/informant/captive for the "greater good", and who are always up for a little "wet-work" on the side.

The Republic is in serious trouble and the CIA is now an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We truly do not want to be an independent nation much longer.