Former CIA intelligence analyst John Gentry predicts that politicized intelligence agencies will try to interfere in the 2024 election, similar to their efforts in 2020.
Gentry, a Georgetown University professor and author of the new book “Neutralizing the CIA: Why U.S. Intelligence vs. Trump Has Long-Term Consequences,” told Fox News Digital in a recent interview.he Said:
My guess is that the proverbial deep state will rise again within the intelligence community, perhaps because Republican candidates will once again be seen as a threat to the internal policies favored by many in the intelligence community.
Mr. Gentry pointed to an infamous open letter in which more than 50 former intelligence officials claimed: new york postThe article about Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation just weeks before the 2020 election.
The letter, now proven to be false, can be traced back to then-Biden campaign adviser Antony Blinken and Obama's former acting CIA director Mike Morrell, according to the latter's congressional testimony. The CIA had approved the publication of this letter. Politico.
“I think it's worth keeping a close eye on these people. Many have undermined their own credibility through acts such as the 'Laptop 51' letter,” Gentry said.
He said there have already been indications in recent weeks that the same former intelligence community member will be active in 2024.
“I have long believed that former intelligence officials were likely to become politically active again in opposition to President Trump and next year's Republican presidential nominee,” Gentry told Fox News Digital. We expect it to reopen.” “A little earlier than expected, the activities of the 'former' people have already resumed.''
Mr. Gentry also highlighted how the intelligence community has become more woke over the past few decades with the introduction of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in major intelligence agencies, including the CIA, thereby taking attention away from day-to-day operations. said that it was deflected. .
“This was a half-century-old effort to bring more women and minorities into the intelligence community,” she said, adding that efforts accelerated under the Obama administration.
“This was done in the name of affirmative action. It gradually became a policy throughout the Clinton administration. But President Obama's efforts to improve diversity and inclusion in the federal workforce Whether signing an executive order to do so represents a significant step forward depends on how you look at it.
He cited former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper as two of the main promoters of a more politically active intelligence agency.
He said they “strongly support” President Obama's desire to “transform the federal workforce” and are “starting to accelerate this process.”
“They encouraged employees to be more concerned about diversity and inclusion issues and, in the case of Mr. Brennan, to be politically active,” he said.
He said his new book will teach readers that “there are serious political problems within the agency,” how former members were effective in damaging President Trump in 2020, and how ” He said he hopes this will help people understand why no one was criticized.
“If you put all of this together, I'm pretty confident that we're going to see a resurgence of activism,” he said.
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