The CIA always likes to claim that they are the first line of America's defenses. If so, why have only 117 agency scum (per the stars on the famous Wall of Death at Langley) died in the service of the agency since its founding in 1947?
Does it have anything to do to the fact that CIA scum generally work in relative luxury, cowardly hiding under their State Dept. cover?
Since 1947, how many hundreds of thousands of American service personnel been killed on active duty, generally under horrendous conditions?
Those soldiers generally didn't have the benefit of fancy disguises, fake credit cards, fake documents, new identities, and/or diplomatic cover! :(