Every screenwriter in Hollywood's mind exploded last night, with the news that the CIA recruited a doctor in Pakistan to launch a fake hepatitis vaccination program in order to veryyyy slowly gain access to the bin Laden compound so as to collect DNA. There's a hot role there for, I dunno, Sheetal Sheth or Mindy Kaling or someone, because: A nurse known as Bakhto, whose full name is Mukhtar Bibi, managed to gain entry to the Bin Laden compound to administer the vaccines. According to several sources, the doctor, who waited outside, told her to take in a handbag that was fitted with an electronic device.

Now the [...]

At a recent Harvard career day, the recruiters from newspaper companies told students to consider another industry and then threw students' application materials in the trash. Meanwhile, the CIA held five recruiting events at Harvard in 2008.

There's a whole story that we're waiting to hear, and it may take a few decades (centuries?) to get in full. With the murky news that the CIA was bilked out of $20 million for hoax "terrorist-detecting software, software that the CIA suspected was fake for years before anything was done about it, it has to be asked: is the CIA actually not an immense, successful octopus diligently working to rearrange the order of the globe? Are they in fact just a bunch of ineffectual overpaid chumps, who were taken entirely by surprise by Tunisia, Egypt and Libya? Who are too busy using drones to shoot [...]

Hey, the CIA sure went from "What secret prisons?" to "We're closing the secret prisons!" pretty fast.

So, SOME secret program, run out of the CIA, which nobody in Congress knew about, and that the head of the CIA was informed about the other day, is going to be shut down now. It was "related to the collection of information" and terrorism is all they will tell us. So whatever they were doing that was shocking and upsetting and outrageous will no longer happen now! Oh yay, puppies and flowers, everything's fine now.