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Rank-and-File Spies Seem to Be Leaning Toward Obama
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 24, 2008 07:38pm |
| Category | Commentary |
| News Date | Oct 24, 2008 07:00pm |
| Description | In normal times you might expect intelligence types to support John McCain , who has said he would like to turn the CIA into something like the far more nimble World War II-era cadre of spies and saboteurs, the OSS.
It’s an idea that’s suddenly attractive to a lot of disillusioned veteran CIA operatives, who think the present CIA has grown too big, cautious and sclerotic for today’s needs.
But this is not a normal year, to say the least. And the signals I’m picking up from the direction of CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., suggest that the spies are going for Barack Obama .
“Normally, at least a while back, and certainly in the 1990s, during the Clinton administration, people around the CIA would tend to vote Republican,” says a recent covert agency retiree, asking not to be identified because he still consults with the spy agency.
“But I think that’s changed, probably because of Iraq and Afghanistan,” he said.
After years of derision and insults from neoconservatives who coalesced in the Bush administration, old hands say, they’re getting their revenge. |
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