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Abigail Spanberger is a former CIA officer running for Congress as the Democrat challenging Dave Brat in Virginia. Somehow Paul Ryan’s PAC got hold of her security clearance application forms and used it to create an attack ad. There is no way for anyone to have gotten the forms involved unless there’s a mole leaking in the CIA or foreign intelligence stole it. There is no way to get the info involved via FOIA.
C.I.A. Officer-Turned-Candidate Says PAC Obtained Her Security Application
WASHINGTON — A former C.I.A. officer running for Congress accused a super PAC aligned with Speaker Paul D. Ryan on Tuesday of improperly obtaining her entire federal security clearance application — a highly sensitive document containing extensive personal information — and then using it for political purposes.
Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic candidate challenging Representative Dave Brat of Virginia, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Corry Bliss, the executive director of the Congressional Leadership Fund, which has raised more than $100 million to help Republicans in the midterm elections. She demanded that the super PAC destroy all copies of the form and agree to not use the information in any fashion.
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Ms. Spanberger, 39, said in the letter that she had “clear evidence” that the Congressional Leadership Fund had provided a copy of her security clearance application to “at least one news outlet,” adding, “I am not aware of any legal way that C.L.F. could have this document.” In an interview, she said that she suspected that the group was trying to exploit a brief time when she taught at a private Islamic school funded by Saudi Arabia.
The super PAC validated that suspicion in its response, going on at some length to try to link the school — called “Terror High” in an earlier news article — to terrorist activity.
www.nytimes.com/...
Ned Price
✔@nedprice
· 17h
This raises lots of questions, but also the possibility the Trump administration is furnishing highly confidential personal information of public-servants-turned-Democratic-candidates to their political opponents. Have to get to the bottom of this. https://nyti.ms/2MVzfNK
C.I.A. Officer-Turned-Candidate Says PAC Obtained Her Security Application
A former C.I.A. officer running for Congress demanded the Congressional Leadership Fund destroy the highly sensitive security clearance application that she says it obtained.
nytimes.com
Ned Price
✔@nedprice
The @CLFSuperPAC obtained an UNREDACTED version of @SpanbergerVA07’s SF86, a highly confidential personal document never released to the public. Not even her SSN was blacked out. Either the Trump administration provided it, or a foreign adversary did.
We cannot shrug this off.
8:43 PM - Aug 28, 2018
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Wednesday, Aug 29, 2018 · 10:46:43 AM EDT · Seashells
Please call Brat’s campaign office and demand he respond to this heinous breach of national security: (804)496-8214.
Ex-CIA Officer Turned Democratic Candidate Has Her Security Clearance Forms Leaked By GOP PAC.
This is a serious federal felony, of which there are no statute of limitations.
The head of this PAC should be advised that he is only safe so long as there is a Republican in office. But that will change, and he will go to prison, quite possibly for the rest of his life, when a new DOJ comes with a new Democratic administration.
So nobody here at usmb is going to be shocked when that day comes right?
C.I.A. Officer-Turned-Candidate Says PAC Obtained Her Security Application
WASHINGTON — A former C.I.A. officer running for Congress accused a super PAC aligned with Speaker Paul D. Ryan on Tuesday of improperly obtaining her entire federal security clearance application — a highly sensitive document containing extensive personal information — and then using it for political purposes.
Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic candidate challenging Representative Dave Brat of Virginia, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Corry Bliss, the executive director of the Congressional Leadership Fund, which has raised more than $100 million to help Republicans in the midterm elections. She demanded that the super PAC destroy all copies of the form and agree to not use the information in any fashion.
snip
Ms. Spanberger, 39, said in the letter that she had “clear evidence” that the Congressional Leadership Fund had provided a copy of her security clearance application to “at least one news outlet,” adding, “I am not aware of any legal way that C.L.F. could have this document.” In an interview, she said that she suspected that the group was trying to exploit a brief time when she taught at a private Islamic school funded by Saudi Arabia.
The super PAC validated that suspicion in its response, going on at some length to try to link the school — called “Terror High” in an earlier news article — to terrorist activity.
www.nytimes.com/...
Ned Price
✔@nedprice
· 17h
This raises lots of questions, but also the possibility the Trump administration is furnishing highly confidential personal information of public-servants-turned-Democratic-candidates to their political opponents. Have to get to the bottom of this. https://nyti.ms/2MVzfNK
C.I.A. Officer-Turned-Candidate Says PAC Obtained Her Security Application
A former C.I.A. officer running for Congress demanded the Congressional Leadership Fund destroy the highly sensitive security clearance application that she says it obtained.
nytimes.com
Ned Price
✔@nedprice
The @CLFSuperPAC obtained an UNREDACTED version of @SpanbergerVA07’s SF86, a highly confidential personal document never released to the public. Not even her SSN was blacked out. Either the Trump administration provided it, or a foreign adversary did.
We cannot shrug this off.
8:43 PM - Aug 28, 2018
Twitter Ads info and privacy
Wednesday, Aug 29, 2018 · 10:46:43 AM EDT · Seashells
Please call Brat’s campaign office and demand he respond to this heinous breach of national security: (804)496-8214.
Ex-CIA Officer Turned Democratic Candidate Has Her Security Clearance Forms Leaked By GOP PAC.
This is a serious federal felony, of which there are no statute of limitations.
The head of this PAC should be advised that he is only safe so long as there is a Republican in office. But that will change, and he will go to prison, quite possibly for the rest of his life, when a new DOJ comes with a new Democratic administration.
So nobody here at usmb is going to be shocked when that day comes right?