If this former CIA agent had a brain...he would NOT be a democrat...period
Plenty of democrat service men\women! I am always surprised by the number of left wing officers I run into.
The CIA personnel were heavily Marxist from the start. Many of them thought that Soviet Russia would win the Cold War - and they wanted to help control the situation, to keep it from getting out of hand.
Public sector centralized government entities are far more attractive to leftists than to rightists, who generally prefer the private sector.
The Deep State is inherently, inevitably, leftist in orientation.
We supposedly had a Republican majority in DC recently. What a joke. Setting aside that most are RINOs, the surrounding unelected apparatchiks - which far outnumber the ostensible elected representation - are 90% Democrat.
DC = District of Corruption.
DC = Democrat Central.