STO, 
I thought the analogy was pretty good. There are as many fast snails as there are progressive liberals.  True progressives believe in making things progressively better, not worse.  Liberal ideas stopped being 'better ideas' a long, long time ago.  Ronald Reagan was a Democrat at one time and switched because, like he said, "The Democrat Party left me, I didn't leave them."   John F. Kennedy would be considered a conservative today.  And he was even less  fond of the CIA in his day as Trump is now. Kennedy wanted to break the CIA into a thousand pieces after the failed Bay of Pigs in 1961. He never got over being duped by the CIA.  The power that comes from  the  ability to collect information and use it to extort or  destroy lives has always been a powerful  temptation to those who work in our spy industry. Many decent people have served  and gone, but what of the indecent ones? I think that a good, thorough  house cleaning has been long over-due.