Electoral battles

Rachel Marsden: Former CIA leaders should stay out of presidential election

Three former Central Intelligence Agency directors have emerged to denounce Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, to the benefit of his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. It's troubling to see past leaders of America's foreign intelligence agency, which is responsible for subverting and influencing foreign targets through propaganda, attempting to do the same at home to influence a presidential election.

In a recent New York Times op-ed, Michael J. Morell, a former acting director and deputy director of the CIA, wrote: "President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was a career intelligence officer, trained to identify vulnerabilities in an individual and to exploit them. That is exactly what he did early in the primaries."

Ironically, that's exactly what career intelligence officers appear to be doing right now to the American voting public.