Telling Data Stories: An Interview with CIA’s Dr. Calvin Andrus — Central Intelligence Agency

interesting story... still never will trust them again...
been "had" and screwed over by them too many times...

..."... What advice would you share with people who aspire to become CIA officers?

My advice would be to remember what the CIA is and does. We protect the nation and the Constitution from foreign threats, so we have to know the world. That is our domain. Anybody who wants to work here needs to know about the world beyond our borders--as well as cutting edge methods and tools used across disciplines (such as economics and history). We need to know the substance, the methods, and the tools as best as we can to help our national policymakers protect the American people...."...

Kind of makes me wonder in the era of big data will we one day find individuals guilty by way of predictive indicators driving by data scientists' algorithms - "You have been found guilty by 90% that you will commit a future crime."