War in Afganistan is run by the CIA. Anyone depolyed to Afganistan is on the CIA radar. Anyone deployed to Afganistan is screened for potential service in the service of national security.
Afghanistan is CIA recruitment central for US service members 'Cutouts' (espionage) not identified through standard channels in academia.
The CIA recruits 'spies'.
CIA agents are not 'spies', they recruit them.
Agents are known as 'Officers' or 'Case Officers'.
They target 'traitors' with vulnerabilities that can be exploited such as financial, sexual or substance abuse proclivities.
Due to their character inclination or predisposition toward particular behaviors, 'spies' are able to be 'flipped', turned, doubled, and tripled.
'Spies' cannot be trusted because they flip.
Spies once recruited or 'flipped' cannot be trusted, EVER.
Officers handle flipped spies known as 'assets'.
Officers exploit assets ambition, desire or needs.
Officers are not spies, spies are not agents.
Officers use the word 'spy' as a pejorative.
Once CIA, always CIA. They cannot be reformed, they cannot be made moral, they cannot be expected to act ethically.
Do not trust 'former' Officers, there is no such thing.
They operate 'in the gray' knowing neither ethical nor moral behavior, where the ends justify the means.
Write this down, memorize it, scratch it on a bathroom stall, 'DO NOT TRUST THE CIA.'