Civilians have always been the emissaries of the CIA. The more "peace corps" and "civilians" we have overseas, the more we return to the 1975-1979 CIA human assets security mindset - flood the world with agents since the US is flooded with them.

His glaze-eyed followers will eat up anything without thinking. If he said "we need more spies all over the world," it just wouldn't come out the same way. So they'll eat it up, even though the concept of "civilians as spies," mentioned by a conservative, would likely be totally abhorrent to them.

It's all swell and fine, but from Obama's pinched mouth it's just more words meant to help conceal his previously perfectly pronounced perfidiousness.