Valerie Plame was just the latest woman to run up against Langley's Kafkaesque workplace culture.

The broader problem, says Janine Brookner, is a dysfunctional workplace culture that uses the cloak of national security to insulate itself from demands for reform.

Click through for a rather colorful rant toward the end of the article.

A land surveyor takes a job at a mysterious castle, only to meet resistance from co-workers who have been organized by the company’s bureaucracy to impede his progress. He also is met with hostility from the residents of a nearby town who conspire with the castle’s workers. Haneke’s faithful adaptation of Franz Kafka’s novel fragment successfully incorporates the writer’s prose into a startling cinematic vision.

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