The Los Angeles Times reports today that two more senior CIA officials have quit because of confrontations with CIA director Porter Goss’s new chief of staff, Patrick Murray, “who many accuse of having a brusque manner.” (See Michael Ledeen on this all, too.)

Can you imagine James Bond getting upset because M had a “brusque manner”? Can you imagine him stomping out in a huff because Q cracked wise with him?

What does this suggest about the CIA’s descent from the world’s premier spy agency to another entrenched bureaucracy?