The Peace Corps is an American icon, which makes it difficult to criticize. Yet over the past ten years, scathing criticism has been emerging in the public sphere. This investigative report synthesizes a decade's worth of Peace Corps criticism, and reveals an agency so obsessed with its own image that it will sacrifice quality programming, the support of its Volunteers, and the needs of the communities under its care in order to preserve its iconic reputation. The report reveals an agency that takes advantage of this iconic status to mislabel all criticism as destructive attacks, rather than make efforts to reform. This ground-breaking investigation will be of interest to prospective Volunteers, as well as to the Peace Corps community as a whole.