Former CIA analyst says agencies dominated by liberals.
The CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies have become bastions of political liberals and the pro-Democratic Party views of intelligence personnel have increased under President Donald Trump, according to a journal article by a former CIA analyst.
John Gentry, who spent 12 years as a CIA analyst, criticized former senior intelligence leaders, including CIA Director John Brenan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former deputy CIA director Michael Morell, along with former analyst Paul Pillar, for breaking decades-long prohibitions of publicly airing their liberal political views in attacking Trump.
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WNU Editor: How times change. I remember when President Obama was elected, in his first year the narrative was that the intel community was too conservative. As to what is my take on today's intel community. In theory, intelligence agencies are supposed to be staffed with non-partisan/apolitical civil servants, and the military agencies with military officers. In reality they are not. They have their own prejudices and biases, and group think is far more common than what it should be. Intelligence entities are also reflections of the political environment that they exist in, and their operations and management will reflect that. But we are also living in a unique time, and the culture on how former senior intel officials must keep their opinions to themselves is no longer there. When former CIA Director Brennan accuses President Trump of working for Russia .... in essence calling him a traitor .... you have to wonder how many who are currently in the intel community also feel that way, and what are they doing about it.
