It seems to be similar to the USMC's "Once a Marine, always a Marine."
But people who leave the marines aren't actually marines in any way other than mindset, right? Not sure what I'm supposed to take away from this analogy.
I think the commenter was saying (by analogy) even if all official ties to the CIA are severed, the former CIA employee has so imbibed the CIA Kool Aid that it will be impossible (maybe consciously) to try to go to work at Meta without thinking like a CIA employee. All his decisions will be filtered through the lens of "do I think this is what the government would want?"
Since many of us have met a Marine who – decades later – was still in love with the USMC, we can get a taste of how someone might feel about the CIA years later.
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But people who leave the marines aren't actually marines in any way other than mindset, right? Not sure what I'm supposed to take away from this analogy.
I think the commenter was saying (by analogy) even if all official ties to the CIA are severed, the former CIA employee has so imbibed the CIA Kool Aid that it will be impossible (maybe consciously) to try to go to work at Meta without thinking like a CIA employee. All his decisions will be filtered through the lens of "do I think this is what the government would want?"
Since many of us have met a Marine who – decades later – was still in love with the USMC, we can get a taste of how someone might feel about the CIA years later.