Benz: ‘CIA is Second Fiddle - State Department Calls the Real Shots’

Mike Benz: ‘CIA is Second Fiddle - State Department Calls the Real Shots’

Mike Benz reveals the true power dynamics between the CIA and the State Department in shaping U.S. foreign policy.

“… behind every dirty cloak and dagger CIA operation is a dirty Assistant Secretary at the State Department or a dirty member of the State Department's policy planning staff, or a dirty under Secretary of Defense, or a dirty person on the National Security Council who's coordinating that.”

The CIA exists primarily as a support mechanism for State Department goals, operating as the “low-level hit man” rather than the mastermind of foreign operations.