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‘Significant problem’: Ex-CIA analyst says ‘deep state’ intel agencies will be ‘politically active’ during 2024 election

January 2, 2024 | | Print Article

Because it worked so well for the Deep State in 2020, one former CIA intelligence analyst believes that intel agencies will once again be weaponized for the upcoming 2024 presidential election.

If it occurs, few Americans should be surprised. However, this time around, Elon Musk owns X, and Americans are now quite aware of the intelligence agencies and their purported censorship tactics.

“A Georgetown University professor who spent 12 years as a CIA intelligence analyst is warning that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts and the overall politicization of the intelligence community have become a ‘significant’ problem and that he is confident those agencies will attempt to interfere with the 2024 election similar to their efforts in 2020,” Fox News reported after an exclusive interview with Dr. John Gentry, author of, “Neutering the CIA: Why US Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences.”

“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,” he told Fox News Digital.

Conservatives still remember how the intelligence community and social media censored and silenced a New York Post story that originally outed the contents of Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” in the run-up to the 2020 election so Joe Biden would not look bad.

Fifty-one former intelligence officials signed a letter that was a blatant attempt to discredit the story, asserting that it “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” The CIA gave the politicized letter its stamp of approval for publication, according to documents obtained by Fox News Digital this year.

That claim by the intelligence officials turned out to be false but it is entirely believable they will once again use the same sort of tactics to sway the upcoming presidential election in the Left’s favor if given the opportunity.

Gentry contends that suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story was “clearly political.” He also claims that a highly placed source told him “in no uncertain terms” that it was done “explicitly” with the “intent to help the Biden campaign,” according to Fox News. Not only that, but he says there have been indications in the last few weeks that current or former intelligence agency members are gearing up for 2024.

“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,” Gentry commented. “The activities of ‘formers’ have resumed already, a bit before I expected.”

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The former intel analyst referred to an article written by Marc Polymeropoulos, a retired CIA official who was the co-lead of the Hunter Biden laptop “open letter,” and former FBI employee Asha Rangappa who warned of former President Trump’s so-called dangerous rhetoric on the campaign trail.

“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,” Gentry remarked. “I think it is worth closely monitoring these people. Many have compromised their credibility by actions such as the ‘Laptop 51’ letter.”

He’s extremely concerned over DEI policies and how they play into political weaponization in the agencies.

“It was an effort half a century ago to get more women and minorities into the intelligence community,” Gentry pointed out. “This was done under the rubric of affirmative action. It gradually became more of a policy through the Clinton administration. But it took a significant step forward, or not, depending on your perspective, when President Obama signed an executive order designed to improve diversity and inclusion in the federal workforce.”

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“There are a lot of people who are unhappy about it because it’s politicizing the workforce, and it’s dividing the workforce among people who believe in DEI policies and those who don’t,” Gentry told Fox News.

“And even in the Obama period, the analysis director had people who were beginning to talk about, quote, ‘soft totalitarianism.’ That was a direct result of Brennan’s top-down, politically driven policies; the totalitarianism being a reminder of the Soviet Union and China, and so on. Well, this has a number of effects in terms of performance and in terms of credibility,” he continued.

“So, put all these things together, and I’m pretty confident that we’ll see a reemergence of activism,” Gentry asserted.

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