Sometimes the CIA's actions do just the reverse, and in many parts of the world including countries friendly to the USA, they are disliked and even feared.
At a news conference in the White House Rose Garden, a sometimes testy president said he would shut down the CIA's program to question terrorism suspects if Congress does not approve his rules.
It would have been far better to have trusted the public with theCIA analysts' full assessments than for the individual, sometimes uncorroborated pieces of raw intelligence to be released to the public without any analysis or context.
For example, Business Intelligence Advisors, based in Boston, has been staffed with former, and sometimes active, CIA officers and has reportedly worked for the likes of Goldman Sachs and SAC Capital Advisors, the big hedge fund run by billionaire Steve Cohen.