Their new mission? Foil Trump. Ex-intelligence officials run for Congress as Democrats.
I remember the pic below. I believe it was inauguration day and trump went to the CIA to introduce himself.
But the wall had names of the CIA members who had lost their lives. I remember Trump said something wrong, very wrong, but I do not remember what it was. It had something to do with that wall behind him. But as I read further on, I discovered an embedded link to the article which I posted below.
Anyway, I am so glad these two have stepped forward and are running. Good article
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Their new mission? Foil Trump. Ex-intelligence officials run for Congress as Democrats.
They've hit the campaign trail, fed up with what they see as the president's disdain for the intel community.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/their-new-mission-foil-trump-ex-intelligence-officials-run-congress-n907291
by Adam Edelman / Sep.08.2018 / 7:00 AM ET
They put their lives on the line in foreign war zones, conducted secret missions to collect valuable intelligence and made enormous sacrifices for their country — only to see their former colleagues disrespected by President Donald Trump.
Now, driven by the president's conduct, they're taking matters into their own hands and gearing up for a different challenge: running for Congress as Democrats.
Fed up with what they see as Trump's disdain and distrust of the intelligence community — and his refusal to embrace fully the conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election — an unusually large number of former intelligence officers and operatives are campaigning for office as Democrats in this fall's midterm elections, according to experts.
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.
All agree that their decision to run began with the current commander in chief.
"It's incredibly disappointing," Spanberger, who served as a CIA officer in the U.S. and abroad for eight years before moving back to Virginia in 2014, told NBC News. "To have a president who doesn't see your work as service to the nation, work that is meant to help him, it's hard to see."
Slotkin, who was a Middle East analyst for the CIA, did three tours in Iraq, and worked in the State and Defense Departments in the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, said she's been dismayed that the sacrifice she and her former colleagues made would be disregarded.
"It's rattled me and everyone I know in the community," she told NBC News. "It's been a big surprise to me that the commander in chief would be targeting his own intelligence community. These are people who come in every day and make sacrifice and work to keep our country safe.".............................
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But for Spanberger (running against Republican Rep. Dave Brat) and Slotkin (taking on Republican Rep. Greg Bishop) — both races are rated as toss-ups by the Cook Political Report — a pivotal moment came on Trump's first full day into his presidency, when he delivered a bizarre, unscripted and self-referential speech before a wall of stars memorializing fallen officers at the CIA headquarters.
"That is the equivalent of hallowed ground, where people who died in service to this country are honored," Spanberger said. Just days earlier, the president had seemed to compare elements of the U.S. intelligence community to "Nazi Germany."
Here is the embedded article:
Ex-CIA Boss Brennan, Others Rip Trump Speech in Front of Memorial
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-cia-boss-brennan-others-rip-trump-speech-front-memorial-n710366
by Andrea Mitchell and Ken Dilanian / Jan.21.2017 / 7:47 PM ET / Updated Jan.22.2017 / 1:26 PM
Image: US President Donald Trump visit CIA headquarters in Langley
President Donald J. Trump speaks to 300 people at the CIA headquarters, in Langley, Virginia, on Jan. 21, 2017.Olivier Douliery / POOL / EPA
President Trump Praises CIA, Attacks Media in Agency Visit
Jan.21.201702:32
Donald Trump traveled to CIA headquarters Saturday to offer reassurance to the workforce after he spent weeks criticizing American intelligence, but his unscripted, self-referential remarks before a wall of stars memorializing fallen officers are drawing criticism, including a pointed denunciation from the agency’s recently departed director.
"Former CIA Director Brennan is deeply saddened and angered at Donald Trump's despicable display of self-aggrandizement in front of CIA's Memorial Wall of Agency heroes,” Nick Shapiro, a former aide to John Brennan at CIA, told NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell.
Brennan, Shapiro said, believes Trump "should be ashamed of himself."
Trump was greeted with cheers by the CIA officers who volunteered to be there to greet him on a Saturday.
But the wall of 117 stars in the CIA lobby is a revered place, and presidents who have spoken there tend to do so carefully and with a close attention to their subject — usually the sacrifices of the CIA officers and their families.
Trump expressed support for the CIA, but he also veered into political territory, denouncing the news media, boasting about the size of his inaugural crowds, and even discussing his own appraisal of his intellect.
"And then they say, 'Is Donald Trump an intellectual?'" Trump said. "Trust me, I’m like a smart person."
A former senior CIA officer told NBC News he was embarrassed watching the remarks, which he called a "free-wheeling, narcissistic diatribe.".........................................................
President Trump Speaks At CIA Headquarters
US President Donald Trump speaks at the CIA headquarters on January 21, 2017 in Langley, Virginia. Trump spoke with about 300 people in his first official visit with a government agency.Olivier Doulier / Pool via Getty Images file
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