Without knowing his status, it does make sense given the number of other so called ‘former’ agents running for state and federal positions across the country, it is clear the Agency has launched a concerted program to infiltrate this country’s political system with operatives. I thought they were prohibited from operating domestically. So much for that cover being blown to smithereens.
” it does make sense given the number of other so called ‘former’ agents running for state and federal positions across the country, it is clear the Agency has launched a concerted program to infiltrate this country’s political system with operatives.”
Valerie Plame, Pete Buttigieg, Dan McCready...
NBC article:
Their new mission? Foil Trump. Ex-intelligence officials run for Congress as Democrats.
“For many — like Abigail Spanberger in Virginia’s Richmond-area 7th Congressional District and Elissa Slotkin in Michigan’s Lansing-area 8th Congressional District — it’s a matter of restoring respect for the agencies they gave so much of themselves to.
Gina Ortiz Jones, a former Air Force intelligence officer and Defense Intelligence Agency employee who is running in Texas’s 23rd Congressional District in the southwestern portion of the state, described the effect that Trump’s insults of the intelligence community had on her.
Others ran — but lost — in Democratic primaries earlier this year, including Jeff Beals, a former CIA officer, and Patrick Ryan, a former Army intelligence officer, who both competed in New York’s 19th Congressional District primary.”
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Meet former CIA spy Abigail Spanberger who got her resume de-classified to run for Congress