Many readers are doubtless at least somewhat familiar with Governor Abigail Spanberger of Virginia who campaigned as a moderate and then turned sharply leftward as soon as she took office. We recently learned of Jewish Senator Elissa Slotkin from Michigan who issued not-so-veiled threats against young conservatives aspiring to some level of involvement. (Slotkin was also among the group of socialists who had encouraged members of the military to defy Trump’s orders.)
It turns out that both women previously were employed with the CIA. Slotkin also had other positions within the federal government’s intelligence/ national security apparati.
“Intelligence officials abuse their positions to discredit opposition to the Democratic Party, of which they are part.” noted (Angelo) Codevilla. “Complicit with the media, they leverage the public’s mistaken faith in their superior knowledge, competence, and patriotism to vilify their domestic enemies from behind secrecy’s shield.” The former Naval officer and Senate intelligence committee staffer, one of the few to see everything the CIA wanted money for, might have understated the case.
Since the CIA was a bust at its appointed tasks, it became a finishing school for partisan Democrats like Slotkin and Spanberger.
Don’t forget Valerie Plame.
I did not know that she ran for Congress, Fred. But you did!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Plame
“President Trump, target of that Democrat operation, should now lead the charge to break up the CIA, a move Angelo Codevilla had been recommending since the 1980s.”
Hear! Hear! If only JFK had had the gumption to “cut it in a thousand pieces and cast it to the wind” as he said should be done, he and the US as a republic would not have been assassinated.
We probably need to eliminate and replace it– within the context of a complete revamping of the intelligence community, J. Sobran. We need far fewer intelligence agencies. As you know, the problem is the GOP caucus in the US Senate which is mostly composed of national security Republicans– not limited government or social conservatives. They would probably never agree to any of this.