CIA officials, including the upper echelons, are required to be 'apolitical'. The main purpose of the CIA is to gather intelligence on America's enemies and guarantee the safety and security of the citizens of this country. The administration of CIA chief John Brennan came nowhere near meeting this standard. Brennan used the CIA to lie for political ideological goals. This has been shown earlier when Brennan used the CIA to conduct illegal surveillance of the Senate Intelligence Committee and then lied about it. These the same investigations that Brennan lied to Senator Feinstein about, and Brennan later apologized to the leaders of the SIC.