Intelligence?

It is not often I deign to comment on politics or newspapers but something the White House said stung me, although I almost immediately realised they weren't the only ones who were daft or disingenuous in this case. Plus it follows on tenuously from my last post.

Moore footage shows new CIA boss ruling himself out

All the guy really seems to be saying is that he wouldn't get an entry level job in the current CIA, an uncontroversial statement of their supposed focus of technology and Persian languages, yet Moore is reported as suggesting this is him ruling himself out of the top post.. a wholly different barrel of pitch. Naughty Michael Moore! Meanwhile, did I read that right!? 'The White House dismissed the footage as "hearsay".' Now, I've heard it said that GW Bush is stupid but I'd always imagined his staff were smart (and so clearly inexcusably, irredemably evil) I also thought that everyone in Washington was a lawyer, so I cannot conceive of how they can say what I just heard!!?