CIA Tweets ‘Good Riddance’ to Homeland Character

According to New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, Homeland protagonist Carrie Mathison is leaving the CIA in the new season, and the serially-incompetent espionage agency can’t wait for her vamoose. Per Dowd:

The C.I.A. sisterhood is fed up with the flock of fictional C.I.A. women in movies and on TV who guzzle alcohol as they bed hop and drone drop, acting crazed and emotional, sleeping with terrorists and seducing assets.

“The problem is that they portray most women in such a one-dimensional way; whatever the character flaw is, that’s all they are,” said Gina Bennett, a slender, thoughtful mother of five who has been an analyst in the Counterterrorism Center over the course of 25 years and who first began sounding the alarm about Osama bin Laden back in 1993.

“It can leave a very distinct understanding of women at the agency — how we function, how we relate to men, how we engage in national security — that is pretty off.”

She wasn’t kidding. The agency tweeted out her article Sunday:

Good Riddance, Carrie Mathison http://t.co/6zNSBK89Eo

— CIA (@CIA) April 5, 2015

If this keeps them from plotting to overthrow democratically elected governments, they can have at it.

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