Online NewsHour: Resignations Mark Power Struggle Within CIA -- November 15, 2004

Online NewsHour: Resignations Mark Power Struggle Within CIA -- November 15, 2004

The return of McCarthy era purges? Then it was the state department, which may also get purged with Powell's resignation. Now its starting with the CIA. I read some right wing accounts defending this as the refuge for liberals who escaped the McCarthy purge. "Of course. I mean, they all came from Yale, which didn't exactly preach Social Darwinism. And then remember that during the McCarthy purges, any leftist at State who could get to CIA, jumped, and Allen Dulles protected them all. In the Fifties and early Sixties, the State Department was much more hard-line than the agency." (National Review Online).

Never mind that its been 50 YEARS since those purges, so all of those people are long retired. I don't recall a ton of people from Yale going to the CIA. They were much more interested in hitting wall street or doing consulting.