Trial witnesses describe a raucous workplace culture among officers at the intelligence agency.
Inside a secret government building west of Washington, D.C. — past the armed guards, through the turnstiles and coded locks, into a vaulted office with the highest security clearance — sat the Central Intelligence Agency’s team of elite programmers.
They had the weighty mission of creating the hacking tools used by the C.I.A. to spy on foreign governments and terrorists. If that job description conjures Hollywood images of serious officers in dark suits huddling over clandestine operations, a different picture emerged during a federal trial in Manhattan this month.
The work culture described by C.I.A. officers on the witness stand more closely resembled comedies like “The Office” or “Silicon Valley” than spy thrillers like “Jack Ryan.”
From their cubicles, the programmers sent prank emails, taunted colleagues about their physical appearance and shot each other with Nerf guns and rubber bands, according to trial testimony.
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WNU Editor: If this New York Times story is even half right, it reminds me of the following Ray Bradbury quote .... "the gargoyles have taken over the cathedral".
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"the gargoyles have taken over the cathedral", and praying will not help. This is a very narrow slice of what goes on there. There are other problems at the agency that make the ones in this report mere child's play.
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