The CIA is NOTHING like Mission: Impossible

Hot take incoming: Tom Cruise may be the best action star of all time. Likewise, Mission Impossible may be the best action series of all time. But despite the entertaining, competent, “good guy” government agent persona, Tom Cruise’s character “Ethan Hunt” would likely be a murderous psychopath in real life… In reality, the CIA, FBI, NSA, MI6, and other clandestine agencies have a horrific track record of depraved inhumanity and downright incompetency. Let’s take a look at their dismal track records on this episode of Out of Frame. ______________________________ FOLLOW/SUPPORT US: Support Out of Frame on Patreon or SubscribeStar:   / outofframeshow   https://www.subscribestar.com/outoffr... Join our Discord:   / discord   Watch our newest video, "The Meaning of Everything Everywhere All At Once":    • The Meaning of Everything Everywhere All A...   Check out our new short “This is What Peak Streaming Looks Like.”:    • This is What Peak Streaming Looks Like. #s...   Sign up for our mailing list and never miss an episode again: https://fee.org/oof-newsletter Check out our podcast, Out of Frame: Behind the Scenes:    / @outofframebts   Follow us EVERYWHERE! https://linktr.ee/outofframefee ______________________________ CREDITS: Written by Sean W. Malone & Jen Maffessanti Produced by Sean W. Malone Edited by Michael Ozias Asst. Edited by Abby Richardson ______________________________ LINKS: – Foreign Agency Evils/Crimes/Failures – https://www.theguardian.com/world/fro... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/m... https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-c... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl... https://thediplomat.com/2022/03/us-al... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-6... https://www.theguardian.com/world/202... https://fee.org/articles/10-terrifyin... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2... https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2013/1... https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55340234 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/... – Domestic Agency Evils/Crimes/Failures – https://www.theguardian.com/world/int... https://fee.org/articles/mass-surveil... https://fee.org/articles/6-things-we-... https://www.cjr.org/the_feature/jfk_n... https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020... https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/us... https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989... https://www.opensocietyfoundations.or... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8... https://www.vox.com/videos/2022/2/2/2... https://ips-dc.org/the_cia_contras_ga... https://www.statista.com/chart/18417/... https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/gh... https://government.defenceindex.org/#... https://www.city-journal.org/html/hid... https://www.freep.com/story/news/loca... https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articl... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1... http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/his... https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSA... https://www.jstor.org/stable/2600234 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl... https://www.9-11commission.gov/report... https://www.aei.org/op-eds/dont-ignor... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0010SIPZ8/...