Politicized intel

US intelligence agencies show ‘unprecedented’ leftward slant & anti-Trump bias – former CIA analyst

The political Left increasingly dominates US intelligence agencies and that “bias may have crept into CIA analyses,” a former analyst in the agency claims, calling out former colleagues for their increasingly illiberal liberalism.

“A considerable body of evidence… indicates that many CIA people have left-leaning political preferences,” John Gentry, a professor who spent 12 years as an analyst with the agency, recently wrote in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, warning that the “institutionally embedded, partisan bias” could skew the agency’s work and damage its credibility. 

The agency’s pervasive liberalism jeopardizes its ability to provide “objective intelligence analysis,” and internal agency machinations are thoroughly tainted with political motives, Gentry claims. He slams former CIA directors John Brennan, Michael Hayden and Michael Morell, as well as former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and other senior intel vets – many of whom have landed cable news gigs as anti-Trump talking heads and/or published jeremiads lamenting America’s decline since their retirement – for their criticism of then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 election, which he calls “unprecedented for intelligence officers in [its] substance, tone, and volume.”