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U.S. Intelligence Institutionally Politicized Toward Democrats
Free Beacon ^ | 18 April 2019 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 04/18/2019 2:02:46 PM PDT by Magnatron

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.

The institutional bias outlined in a lengthy article in the quarterly International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence risks undermining the role of intelligence in support of government leaders charged with making policy decisions.

Gentry stopped short of saying the widespread liberal bias of intelligence officials has influenced intelligence reports and products. However, he concludes that "bias may have crept into CIA analyses."

"A considerable body of evidence, much of it fragmentary, indicates that many CIA people have left-leaning political preferences, but less evidence shows that political bias influences CIA analyses," Gentry concludes.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: jamesclapper; johnbrennan; johngentry; michaelmorell; paulpillar
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No kidding?...
1 posted on 04/18/2019 2:02:46 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: Magnatron

Duh....


2 posted on 04/18/2019 2:06:57 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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The Rats controlled IQ operations and the Justice Department for 16 of the 24 years. Like an aggressive cancer they infected both
from top to bottom


3 posted on 04/18/2019 2:08:47 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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Figgered that out, did they?

Well, good for them!

Next they will figger out that the media, the education system and the State Department also ‘lean left’.


4 posted on 04/18/2019 2:10:48 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Magnatron

Some people were angry they did not get big jobs promised if Hillary won. The Democrats have nothing else to run on in the 2020 election. The media has nothing else to report that isn’t damaging to the Democrat Party. Now, we are all waiting for the new investigation into why all this money was wasted on this witch hunt?


5 posted on 04/18/2019 2:11:00 PM PDT by FreedBird
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To: Magnatron

This is another good reason to eliminate the FBI, CIA and most of the DOJ.

Members of these organizations were up to their armpits in acts of sedition against Candidate Trump, President Elect Trump, and even President Trump.

Out them, try them for sedition, and after they are found guilty send them to Gitmo for the max for Acts of sedition.


6 posted on 04/18/2019 2:11:01 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( AG Barr didnÂ’t defend the President! Barr just reported his findings! President Trump, Not Guilty)
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To: Magnatron

Somehow, this is not a surprise.


7 posted on 04/18/2019 2:12:32 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: gibsonguy

And the Bush establishment Republicans were more philosophically aligned with Dems than with conservatism. So really, the lib weasels have had 28 years to worm into the intelligence agencies.


8 posted on 04/18/2019 2:12:47 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Magnatron

They’re indoctrinated in leftist “universities”.


9 posted on 04/18/2019 2:19:35 PM PDT by Signalman
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MEMO TO PRESIDENT TRUMP: Please clean out the intelligence bureaucracy.


10 posted on 04/18/2019 2:28:30 PM PDT by Rapscallion
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Totally right on the mark!

Question is, how to fix this.

If we don’t correct this, our system of liberty cannot survive the negative influence, which will be carried out, internal and external, the army of left wing indoctrinated IC pax create.

It is these very left wing beliefs within Germany, prior to II, which first cleaned out every ounce of morality and character, from all Intel, national police, and defense agencies, which ushered in a left wing indoctrinated army with no moral boundaries.

This needs to be widely circulated.


11 posted on 04/18/2019 2:28:45 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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It is important that we get to the bottom and top of the collapse of the FBI, CIA, NSA as they went total coup de e’tat. In so doing after the election they committed the crime of treason and should be tried and executed forthwith.


12 posted on 04/18/2019 2:33:45 PM PDT by bingoplayer
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They have allowed 15 million illegals into the country and have branded normal constitution loving people like me as racists and have joined with the REAL party of racism, the Democrat Party. “Law Enforcement” in this country, sadly, does not exist, regardless of what you may see on tv, this country is in chaos and thats what they want. .


13 posted on 04/18/2019 2:35:38 PM PDT by TonytheTiger7777
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Color me shocked! /s


14 posted on 04/18/2019 2:47:46 PM PDT by Jean2
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Re: The CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies have become bastions of political liberals...

The same situation in Israel.

Probably always true, in every democracy....

The atom bomb spies, the crypto-Marxists in British intelligence, the crypto-Stalinists in the FDR and Truman administrations.


15 posted on 04/18/2019 2:55:05 PM PDT by zeestephen
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Which is why there is no authority to have such deep state apparakus in USConstitution. It had to be amended to even enable such a creature and wasn’t.

USAians: wake up and terminate the _intelligence_ beast which was and _will_ be used against USAians to subvert us to DC and its evil empire.


16 posted on 04/18/2019 2:55:14 PM PDT by veracious (UN=OIC=Islam ; USAgov may be radically changed, just amend USConstitution)
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Imagine that - those preserving the power of the state support the statists


17 posted on 04/18/2019 2:58:10 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: gibsonguy

They resent Trump, because they did not get promotions and more jobs under his administration. The media is tied to those people within those agencies.


18 posted on 04/18/2019 3:05:39 PM PDT by FreedBird
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To: Magnatron

The President owes CIA a real house-cleaning and re-organiztion


19 posted on 04/18/2019 3:07:23 PM PDT by Rapscallion
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
cia types want control......rats want control....

its just we mere erfs that would like our freedom.....

20 posted on 04/18/2019 3:11:22 PM PDT by cherry
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