An assistance professor of international affairs brainwashed by American neocon war machine. So sad. Read up on CIA real history. 
The CIA is part and parcel of the American deep state war machine. It's the people who did the real dirty work. It runs its own fleet of assassination drones you know. Fly them all over you-know-where with impunity, kill with impunity, violate sovereign borders with impunity. Accountable to no one. It's the world biggest terror shop. 
Most Americans are blind to CIA horror. So are, sadly, many Canadians. Decades of propaganda degrades the mind.
Today the CIA number one order is to restart the Cold War with Russia, and start a new war with China. Thus elevates threat to a degree to sustain the $1 trillion annual budget for the war machine. Help crush the American economy. 
I have been saying the American war machine' aggression is stupid. I got a lot of blowback. And now, Trump just said the same thing publicly after being briefed by the CIA. Hurray!