Do CIA employees follow the rules and regulations?

Do CIA employees follow the rules and regulations?

Not all CIA employees follow the rules and regulations. I would say typical head quarter's gossip on any given day, which usually includes some stories about somebody who has broken the rules and what the repercussions have been. In my experience, the agency tended to be very much a good old boys network and i think a lot of the women who work there felt that the rules were applied more so to the female employees than they were to the male employees. There was a sense that when a male employee broke the rules, there was sort of a boys will be boys attitude, and that was all swept under the carpet. Whereas a female employee generally faced pretty serious repercussions; sometimes affecting her career, or sometimes being fired by the CIA. So, while there's this understanding that everybody will follow the rules, people do break the rules and just like any big business or organization; its not always consistent in what the repercussions of breaking the rules are.