CIA trains people how to lie and not get caught. This is why their former employees become politicians.
I think it’s more than that. I think it is now a DS policy to get as many of their spooks into Congress as possible. (They long held the presidency, of course.)
” 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.”
AND
Meet former CIA spy Abigail Spanberger who got her resume de-classified to run for Congress
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/meet-cia-spy-abigail-spanberger-resume-de-classified/story?id=58594837
Business International Corporation (BI) was a publishing and advisory firm dedicated to assisting American companies in operating abroad. It was founded in 1953. It organized conferences, and worked with major corporations. It had ties to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Former president Barack Obama worked there as a financial researcher after graduating from Columbia University.
Bush Sr. Was a former CIA Director.
The Daily 202: Ex-CIA officers running for Congress as Democrats
By James Hohmann
October 18, 2017
— The former CIA officers who will be on the ballot in 2018 are preparing for the Russians to once again wage an influence campaign — and they expect that they will be targets. At the Pentagon last year, Slotkin was the lead negotiator with Moscow on the memorandum of understanding related to Syria.
Nancy Soderberg, a former top national security official in the Clinton administration, is running in the Aug. 28 Democratic primary for a Daytona Beach, Fla.-area House seat.
In Michigan’s Eighth Congressional District, former Central Intelligence Agency analyst Elissa Slotkin won the Democratic nomination this week and will face Republican Rep. Mike Bishop in November.
In Texas, former military intelligence officer Gina Ortiz Jones is running against GOP Rep. Will Hurd. Mr. Hurd, elected to Congress in 2014, is a former CIA operations officer who did tours in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.