The CIA has a very utilitarian approach...but they are thinking only about the greatest happiness of the greatest number of rich and powerful that control the world. They forget about goodness and justice.
I think they are recruited from certain educational establishments such as Yale and harvard in the states and in the UK the primary recrutiment grounds for the secret service (and civil service) is Oxford, cambridge and eton
people wtih the correct family connections are given the tap on the shoulder and recruited into secret societies within those establishments for example the skull and bones or the wolfs head. These societies follow an initiation programme which is to do with vetting the recruit to make sure they are made of the right stuff; by the right stuff i mean that they lack empathy
They then graduate into the CIA or the NSA etc
Hollywood made an interesting film called 'the good shepherd' with matt damon's character being based on real life spy cheif jesus james angleton. it depicts him being initiated into the skull and bones. There's is a pretty disturbing scene where they interrogate a guy who is innocent and they inject him with LSD as a truth serum
They are currently flying people around the world on rendition flights to countries where they can torture them. they are also holding many people prisoner without trial at guantanamo because it is out of the jurisdiction of the US courts...they basically see themselves as above the law
Here's president bush senior in his days in the skull and bones (he's to the left of the clock):
The CIA experimented with mind control; a proces that often involved sexual abuse:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
They also assasinated political activists in operation Cointelpro:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cointelpro
They would run what they called 'black bag operations' where they would bust into someones house and shoot them then plant a gun on them and say they shot the suspect in self defence
When Kerry and Bush were competiting for the presidency the whole thing was a farce because both men were members of the skull and bones and like the CIA once you are a memeber you are ALWAYS a member. Here's what happened to a student who asked John kerry about the skull and bones club:
[video=youtube;r7Qef8oPmag]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Qef8oPmag[/video]