The CIA Wants a Few Good Wall Streeters

[Billy Burnett]

The CIA Wants a Few Good Wall Streeters
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/the-cia-wants-a-few-good-wall-streeters/

With the job picture on Wall Street looking grim, Investment Dealers’ Digest highlights a different kind of employer looking for financial talent.

It’s the Central Intelligence Agency, which the publication says is increasingly reaching out to Wall Streeters with backgrounds in economics and finance to help assess overseas economies and to track down money used to finance terrorist activities.

Ron Patrick, chief of diversity and outreach in the CIA’s recruitment and retention center, tells the publication that 6 percent to 8 percent of the agency’s new hires have an M.B.A.

“We tend to attract the same people that Wall Street attracts,” he says.

[ixion]

1. “We tend to attract the same people that Wall Street attracts,”

uh, well, what's that say about the integrity of the CIA? Not much, IMO.

[Demeter]

9. Crooks? Psychopaths? Congenital Liars?

Do tell.

[Sal Minella]

2. Ye Gods. I had little enough faith in the CIA as it was.

[rocktivity]

3. Have they heard about the Wall Street meltdown and bailouts?

Those Wall Streeters are out of work for a REASON, you know...

:crazy:
rocktivity

[notesdev]

4. And here I was hoping

that this would be another waterboarding story.

[tom_paine]

5. Yeah, right. Sure. "To track down terrorist money launderers." Sure.

Fucking liars.

They want crooks to launder Bushie Drug Monies and to run other scams for them.

[morgan2]

6. they want to put those people in charge of rival economies

to screw their countries just as bad as ours.

[Demeter]

10. but Wall Street Has Already Done So, With Assistance from American B Schools

[Vidar]

7. Started out with Wild Bill Donovan, also a Wall Street type.

[FlyByNight]

8. So now they want to hire economic sociopaths?

"We tend to attract the same people that Wall Street attracts." Do I really need to add anything to that?

:puke:

[HillWilliam]

11. What was that old saying? To catch a thief

set a thief.

Yeah, that was it.

[Democracyinkind]

12. That makes sense. They used to be a single entity. back to the roots I guess

The old boys. Gotta love empire