With the financial collapse on Wall Street, many laid-off bankers are desperately looking for jobs as the largess from their golden parachutes dwindle. Not to worry, the government (who else) has job offerings for the financial wizards who created those exotic derivative investments (mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps) to put their talents to good use in the service of the CIA.
“Economics, finance and business professionals, if the quest for the bottom line is just not enough for you, the Central Intelligence Agency has a mission like no other,” says a radio commercial sponsored by the clandestine agency on local New York City radio stations. “Join CIA’s directorate of intelligence and be a part of our global mission as an economic or financial analyst. Make a difference in you career and for your nation.”
Interested parties meeting the CIA’s criteria will be directed to a secret location on June 22nd for follow-up interviews.
If the CIA was serious spy agency, they could not find operatives more skilled at destabilizing a nation’s economy than the denizens of Wall Street. In fact, anyone who worked for American International Group (AIG), Citigroup or Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae should automatically move to the front of the line. And there is no one better qualified to vet the applicants than the chairman of the powerful House Financial Services Committee, Barney Frank. When it comes to destabilizing an economy, it would be hard to find anyone with better qualifications than Barney. As a champion of sup-prime lending, Rep. Frank, with bipartisan help from “compassionate conservatives” Republicans, pumped just the right amount of air into the housing bubble to burst it.
With President Obama at the nation’s helm, it’s unlikely the CIA is recruiting Wall Street bankers for tasks anymore dangerous than the jobs already preformed by most of the seat warmers at our nation's annalist-dominant spy agency. It appears our CIA’s “black budget” just got a fresh infusion of Obama’s “stimulus” cash and is padding its bureaucratic rolls with more non-essential government personal.
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