Richard Maybury is a brilliant analyst and writer.

He is an investment guy, but he comes at it from a geopolitical point of view, and goes back in history to understand the geopolitics.

He once said that the reason the CIA is so bad is because they can never really fire anyone. The dullards and bad apples cannot be trusted to not divulge secret info to enemies, so when they should be fired, they are instead simply re-assigned.

In the long run, you have a lot of bad people who end up running a lot of things, when they have no real ability and have no sense of honor or justice. As a result, the entire agency deteriorates over time and becomes a psychopathic agency.

I also read something by someone else shortly after the Boston Marthon Bombing (so-called).

The writer claimed that the case officers (FBI) who were investigating would go around and interview witnesses. They kept coming up with a familiar theme that was troublesome. Appartently each time they would go to interview a witness, the witness would mention that another agent had already been there to interview them.

But this other agent was not "officially" part of the investigation. So, what is an FBI agent, who is not part of the investigation, doing interviewing witnesses before the case officers can, and without their knowledge?

The agent's name was Andrew McCabe.

He would later be appointed Deputy FBI Director.