WASHINGTON — John Brennan was headed for the priesthood when, while sitting idly on a bus as a student at Fordham University in the 1970s, he stumbled on a recruiting ad for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Now, after years of poring through intelligence, trekking with Mideast tribesmen, and overseeing some of America’s most controversial counterterror missions, he is pursuing a calling with as much responsibility and arguably a lot more stress — director of central intelligence.
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So he made the choice between two hierarchical organizations whose first duty is to themselves, second duty is to various "sponsors' and sometimes feel a duty to the people that pay the freight. The difference being that, in his chosen role, Brennan got to more easily justify torture and murder. In another time he may have succeeded Torquemada as the Grand Inquisitor.
For insight read A THEOLOGY OF FEAR and JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE.