IF YOU EVER DOUBTED that "intelligence" doesn't necessarily equal "smartness":

Spain’s spymaster was forced to quit after becoming embroiled in a scandal over fishing and diving trips to exotic locations he was said to have made at taxpayers’ expense.

Alberto Saiz, director of National Intelligence Centre (CNI), stood down after he lost the confidence of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Spanish Prime Minister.

Not just this: apparently he frequently used the agents as personal valets, making them do some handiwork at his home (it's believed he made a couple divers scrap off the mold underwater the swimming pool at his home).

Spain’s spymaster was forced to quit after becoming embroiled in a scandal over fishing and diving trips to exotic locations he was said to have made at taxpayers’ expense.
[...] Most damaging were photographs, published in the Spanish daily El Mundo, showing the spymaster hauling in a swordfish while on a fishing trip off Senegal.
[...] On one occasion, it said, Mr Saiz used a Falcon jet from the Spanish Air Force to travel from Madrid to Dakar in Senegal for a weekend fishing trip.

But that's not all: in the course of trying to defend himself, he did one of the dumbest phauxtography ever recorded: to deflect claims that he was on that fishing trip in Senegal, he produced an image in which he took the head of an agent with him, who also appeared in the picture, and put it in his body. Unbelievable, you say? Well take a look (he's the one holding the swordfish, and the agent he loaned the head from is dressed in beige, second from right; real image above, phauxtography below):



At least he didn't put the fish's head on himself, you got to give him that...


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