article_snippet.sent: Sometimes life imitates art, but apparently not when it comes to the Central Intelligence Agency.
article_snippet.sent: I wish the characters at the center of shows like State of Affairs and Homeland wouldn’t use centerfold models in tight clothes.
article_snippet.sent: One of the fictional CIA agents currently on screen is Charlie Tucker on NBC's State of Affairs.
article_snippet.sent: Played by Katherine Heigl, Charlie Tucker on NBC's State of Affairs is a character who in the first episode gets drunk at a bar, sleeps with a stranger and lashes out at Katherine Heigl psychiatrist.
article_snippet.sent: Another example is Homeland's Carrie Mathison (played by Claire Danes) - a bi-polar spy who gives up nearly all responsibility for Katherine Heigl child (the product of a secret relationship with a double agent) and spends most of Katherine Heigl time controlling sources with sex.
article_snippet.sent: It's not about sex: The real women of the CIA say The real women of the CIA are not all honey-pots who use The real women of the CIA sexuality to control sources (like Carrie Mathison on Showtime's Homeland, played by Claire Danes above)
highlights_snippet.sent: A handful of current and former female CIA employees take issue with characters like Homeland's Carrie Mathison and State of Affairs' Charlie Tucker who act as honey-pots to thwart terrorist plots .
  