A former CIA analyst says he believes U.S. intelligence agencies will get involved in the upcoming election.
A Georgetown University professor who formerly worked for the CIA warned that he believes the U.S. intelligence community has become so politicized that they will attempt to interfere with the 2024 election.
“My guess is that the proverbial deep state within the intelligence community will reemerge because presumably a Republican candidate will again be seen as a threat to the internal policies that many intelligence people like,” Dr. John Gentry told Fox News this week.
He made reference to the Hunter Biden laptop story that was broken by the New York Post with just two weeks to go before the 2020 election, asserting that multiple current and former intelligence officials sought to downplay the revelations contained in the article about the Biden family business deals to “help the Biden campaign.”
“I long have thought we are likely to again see former intelligence officers be politically active against Trump or whomever the Republican presidential candidate is next year, and I expect leaking to resume,” Mr. Gentry, a former CIA analyst, said. “The activities of ‘formers’ have resumed already, a bit before I expected.”
He also pointed to an article that was written by a former CIA official, Marc Polymeropoulos who had helped write an open letter that included a number of former high-ranking intelligence officials after the NY Post laptop story was published, and a former FBI worker, Asha Rangappa. They argued that the story was part of a disinformation campaign and cast doubt on the credibility of the claims.
“Asha Rangappa once worked at the FBI and also was openly anti-Trump, though as a relatively junior former, she attracted less attention than many,” Mr. Gentry alleged. “I think it is worth closely monitoring these people. Many have compromised their credibility by actions such as the ‘Laptop 51’ letter.”
“So, put all these things together, and I’m pretty confident that we’ll see a reemergence of activism,” Mr. Gentry said among current and former U.S. intelligence officials.
