@blatham,
Trump didn't say or do anything to diaparage the reputation or memory of any of the CIA agents memorialized on the wall at the Langley Hq. nothwithstanding all the rather hysterical claims here of sacrilege. .He was instead addressing the senior members of the CIA headquarters bureaucracy in a location frequently used for such events in a form of outreach obviously intended to improve his comunications with them.
Lots of respomsible people offer often well founded criticisms of the DOD and the Military services over a variety of issues, ranging from the effectiveness and cost of various weapons systems, ships and aircraft, and even their operational effectivenenss in action. One doesn't see the uniformed services whining about their dead and the risks they take in their normal duties in response to such criticism. Indeed such behavior would be soundly rejected as unworthy of the continuing responsibilities they all share.
In my experience -and it is extensive - such responses, in the rare cases in which they occur, are far more commonly seen among the rear echelon office flowers than they are the men and women who take the real risks and casualties. They, far more than the others, must of necessity be both self-critical and objective in everything they do and are generally not so inclined to feel threatened by such far fetched, vaguely perceived insults.
