Yesterday, I wrote that we are governed by ignorant fools.

The evidence keeps rolling in, and will for the foreseeable future.

Why? Because ignorant fools govern us, of course. They can’t help providing proof at every opportunity.

The latest example is the case of a Deputy Director of the CIA (unnamed because the Financial Times chose to keep her identity secret, and I don’t want to publish a name without proof for obvious reasons), who changed her Facebook banner to one commonly used by people who have been defending Hamas’ attack on Israel on 10/7.

“The CIA’s associate deputy director for analysis changed her Facebook cover photo on October 21 to an image of a man waving a Palestinian flag that is often used in stories criticising Israel. The Financial Times has decided not to name her …” https://t.co/LVxA3H1wCt

— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) November 28, 2023

A top CIA official posted a pro-Palestine image on Facebook two weeks after Hamas attacked Israel, in a rare public political statement by a senior intelligence officer on a war that has sparked dissent within the Biden administration.

The CIA’s associate deputy director for analysis changed her Facebook cover photo on October 21 to an image of a man waving a Palestinian flag that is often used in stories criticising Israel. The Financial Times has decided not to name her after the intelligence agency expressed concern about her safety.

Posting an overtly political image on a public platform is a very unusual move for a senior intelligence official. It comes as tensions rise inside the administration about whether President Joe Biden should put more pressure on Israel to bring an end to the fighting in the Gaza Strip.

In a separate Facebook post, the senior intelligence official also published a selfie with a sticker saying “Free Palestine” superimposed on the photograph. One person familiar with the image said it was posted to Facebook years ago and long before the current conflict.

“The officer is a career analyst with extensive background in all aspects of the Middle East and this post [of the Palestinian flag] was not intended to express a position on the conflict,” said the person familiar with the situation.

Only a CIA officer, Karine Jean-Pierre, or an MSM hack could say that last sentence with a straight face. Of course it was meant to express an opinion about the current conflict. Are we to believe an AI bot randomly chose it without her knowledge?

Probably. AI bots are big in the media today.

That a CIA officer would do this, even in her personal capacity, is beyond belief. No, I am not surprised that antisemites exist within any particular government agency. Still, senior officials are supposed to be smart enough to keep their opinions to themselves, and CIA officials doubly so. For somebody to be this stupid indicates that their judgment is horrible and terribly compromised, and they should be nowhere near any analysis that would impact government policy.

The CIA itself implied as much when it sent out an email to its employees “reminding” them of the obvious fact that they are prohibited from doing just this thing.

SHOCK: Top CIA official has been caught promoting pro-Hamas imagery on her Facebook page. Biden's Associate Deputy Director for Analysis was warned by the agency to remove the image. The Biden administration is filled with antisemitic Hamas supporters. https://t.co/wsNuuDSPRz pic.twitter.com/X2DmPalkSv

— @amuse (@amuse) November 28, 2023

This news has come out in the context of other stories in which it has been revealed that State Department employees have been openly complaining about Biden Administration policies toward Israel. Anthony Blinken met with dissenters and assured them that their opinions would have an impact on US policy and from the evidence it has. As Ed wrote yesterday, Biden officials are in talks with Middle East power brokers to extend the cease-fire indefinitely.

The CIA official is near the top of the food chain at the CIA–involved in presenting all the CIA’s analyses to the administration and who has worked on the Presidential Daily Brief. It is chilling to know that such a person is directly involved in shaping US policy toward Israel.

EXCLUSIVE: Meet The Senior CIA Official Caught Posting Pro-Palestinian Content On Social Media @DailyCaller https://t.co/vHghDzZueg

— Micaela Burrow (@micaela_burrow) November 28, 2023

Chilling, but not surprising. The people who gravitate to such positions are often hostile to Israel. But usually, they are more circumspect in displaying their sympathies.

The original Oct. 21 photo of a man waving a Palestinian flag — often used in articles critical of Israel — is no longer publicly visible on the official’s social media, as the official, the associate deputy director for analysis at the CIA, changed the image after the Financial Times reached out Monday, the outlet reported. The DCNF identified the official as Amy McFadden, who has served in the CIA Directorate of Analysis front office since 2020, according to her LinkedIn profile.

McFadden worked in the CIA’s Counterterrorism center, was deputy in the Office of North African, Arabian Peninsula, and Regional Analysis and later was director of the President’s Daily Brief, according to her biography.

“The officer is a career analyst with extensive background in all aspects of the Middle East and this post [of the Palestinian flag] was not intended to express a position on the conflict,” a person familiar with the situation told the FT. The person added that the official also posted Facebook posts opposing antisemitism.

The official previously oversaw the assembly of the President’s Daily Briefing and is jointly responsible for managing all analysis distributed within the CIA, the FT reported.

The fact that the person in charge of vetting and disseminating US intelligence is an anti-Israel fool brings up the question: Is US policy being guided by inherently biased information?

Of course it is.

The US would be foolish to take Israel’s intelligence analyses without question–they are a country at war with interests that can, at times, diverge from ours–but the CIA’s analysis should not begin with the assumption that Israel is in the wrong, as it clearly may given the character of this analyst.

Hamas unleashed a terrorist attack because they fear nothing more than Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace.

To continue down the path of terror, violence, killing, and war is to give Hamas what they seek.

We can’t do that.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 28, 2023

The CIA is supposed to be our premier intelligence agency, yet at the top of the pyramid is a fool who can’t even keep her own opinions to herself. That is amazing.

Of course she should be fired or removed from her current position, but so should the people who thought she had the judgment to do her job without embarrassing herself of the agency.