Add some 'Sweepin' Generalizations with Flax' to that breakfast of yours, Shadester. You need to stoke yourself for you next posts.

I don't have to defend anybody, you're the one with the assertions.

Have you ever had a bad employee?

I don't get how you can slam organizations whose hiring standards would eliminate you right away. First of all you flunk the 'what's my agency called' question by answering 'intelligent agency'.

I don't take individual political statements as 'politicization'. and employees don't lose their rights to hold political views.

All of those departments/agencies are necessary and their employees are further from stupid than those in most companies.

Except probably Google. I read that they are very, very, selective.