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California’s illiterate governor Gavin Newsom contends that black people are just like him – academic underachievers who can’t read. So for the response to President Trump’s SOTU, the Democrats opted for Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, who in her brief statement claimed, “Here’s the truth: over the last year, through DOGE, mass firings, and the appointment of deeply unserious people to our nation’s most serious positions, our President has endangered the long and storied history of the United States of America being a force for good,” and so on.
Democrats are pitching Spanberger as a moderate and will doubtless tout her career as a CIA operations officer (2006-2014) as her strongest qualification. In reality, the CIA connection should raise caution flags all across the land. Consider the view of Angelo Codevilla, a veteran of Naval intelligence, with long service on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and one of the few to see everything the CIA wanted money for.
“Intelligence officials abuse their positions to discredit opposition to the Democratic Party, of which they are part,” Codevilla explained in 2020. “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.” As Spanberger knows, CIA partisanship is no secret.
In 1976, John Brennan voted for the Stalinist Gus hall, candidate of the Communist Party USA. Instead of showing him the door, the CIA hired Brennan and in 2013 the president formerly known as Barry Soetoro put him in charge. In 2020, Brennan authored Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies, at Home and Abroad, a bellicose repetition of the Russia hoax, which the author played a role in creating.
Last August, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard released a report confirming that Obama administration officials “manipulated intelligence” related to the 2016 election. The report cited FBI director James Comey, DNI James Clapper and CIA director John Brennan as key players. Rep. Spanberger was all-in from the start.
“I think it is detrimental to our national security that we have an administration that is so willing to discount the information provided by our intelligence community,” Spanberger told reporters in 2018, “The fact that our president would at times seemingly take the side of foreign adversaries over the well-sourced intelligence of the intelligence community is troubling as an American — not just as a former intelligence officer.” According to Spanberger, the one guilty of politicizing intelligence was Trump’s CIA director Mike Pompeo.
In 2020, Brennan signed the letter calling the Hunter Biden laptop Russian disinformation. So did former CIA operations officer John Sipher, who has been featured in Spanberger’s ads. In 2023, an agency colleague brought more revelations of CIA politicization.
Former CIA analyst John Gentry authored Neutering the CIA: Why US Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences. As the author explains, “the politicization of intelligence was aimed at Trump,” and “the political culture of some IC agencies remains intact, available for reactivation in the event of another serious candidacy by Trump or the election of another Republican president.” Both have now taken place, and the CIA had already been “neutered” in other ways.
James Angleton served with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), forerunner to the CIA, which fired the counterintelligence specialist in 1974. Angleton contended that the CIA could be penetrated and duped. The late Edward Jay Epstein, who knew Angleton well, described the process in his 1989 Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and CIA. In 1992, Angelo Codevilla picked up the torch.
Informing Statecraft: Intelligence for a New Century noted that those in the CIA who wanted to win the Cold War “lost out to those who wanted to manage a perpetual competitive-cooperative relationship with the USSR.” So no surprise that the CIA “did not see hundreds of millions of people ready to overthrow the communist world” (italics original) and the CIA line on East Germany “had not deviated far from East German propaganda.” The agency did not learn from its failure.
Spanberger was still in the CIA when John Brennan took over in 2013. According to the undaunted Gus Hall voter, “jihad is a holy struggle in pursuit of a moral goal,” and “violence and jihad not necessarily synonymous.” On September 11, 2001, Brennan wrote, “we learned that the Pentagon had been attacked,” so the mighty CIA knew nothing in advance about the worst attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor.
On Brennan’s watch, the CIA failed to prevent terrorist attacks at Fort Hood (2009), the Boston Marathon (2013), San Bernardino (2015) and Orlando in 2016, all with massive loss of life. No word from Spanberger if the Fort Hood attack was “workplace violence,” as the composite character president claimed. On the other hand, the Virginia Democrat shares CIA fascination with reality dysphoria.
“One CIA demographic group that my deputies and I felt especially privileged to support was the LBGTQ community,” wrote Brennan in Undaunted. The privileged group “wore badges of ANGLE, the Agency Network for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Officers and Allies,” all part of CIA dedication to “diversity.” According to Gentry, Obama made the hiring of LGBTQ types “a priority” at the CIA, and “his motive was clearly political.” That comes through in CIA reports.
“Middle East-North Africa: LGBT Activists Under Pressure,” released near the end of the Obama administration, claimed that “the tough stance taken against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community by governments in the Middle East probably is driven by conservative public opinion and domestic political competition from Islamists, and is hindering US initiatives in support of LGBT rights.” And so on, like something from the Queer Studies Department at UCLA.
Democrats deploy the LGBTQ construct to divide the people, create another oppressed minority, and demonize their opponents. While hailing the construct people as a privileged class the CIA also falsifies intelligence against Democrats’ political foes. That had Angelo Codevilla wondering “Why Are Brennan and Clapper Not in Jail?”
They still aren’t despite revelations from Gabbard. The partisan agents need to be exposed and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Otherwise, they remain a sleeper cell, awaiting activation by the next Democrat administration. Their first choice would doubtless be Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-CIA), who provides a helpful preview.
Asked about “transgender women” playing in female sports, Gov. Spanberger won’t give a straight answer. Spanberger called Audrey Hale’s mass murder a case of gun violence but failed to name or condemn the shooter, a woman who thought she was a man. When Robert “Robin” Westman gunned down kids at Minneapolis church, Spanberger repeated that performance.
A supporter of Biden’s open-border policies, Gov. Spanberger has signed an executive order to “terminate” all agreements between federal immigration officials and local law enforcement. The Virginia governor refuses to hand over Abdul Jalloh, a criminal illegal charged with stabbing to death Stephanie Minter, 41, at a bus stop. At this writing, Spanberger has yet to say the murder victim’s name.
Like Democrats during the SOTU, Spanberger favors criminal illegals over legitimate citizens. In the style of Gov. Newsom, Spanberger signed a bill to draw new electoral maps favoring Democrats. She calls the gerrymander a “responsive effort to redistrict.” If anybody thought that Abigail Spanberger is Newsom, Brennan and Biden in drag it would be hard to blame them. By now it’s apparent that CIA stands for “Covert in America,” so as Trump says, we’ll have to see what happens.
