wsws | An extraordinary number of former intelligence and military
operatives from the CIA, Pentagon, National Security Council and State
Department are seeking nomination as Democratic candidates for Congress
in the 2018 midterm elections. The potential influx of
military-intelligence personnel into the legislature has no precedent in
US political history.
If the Democrats capture a majority in the House of Representatives
on November 6, as widely predicted, candidates drawn from the
military-intelligence apparatus will comprise as many as half of the new
Democratic members of Congress. They will hold the balance of power in
the lower chamber of Congress.
Both push and pull are at work here. Democratic Party leaders are
actively recruiting candidates with a military or intelligence
background for competitive seats where there is the best chance of
ousting an incumbent Republican or filling a vacancy, frequently
clearing the field for a favored “star” recruit.
A case in point is Elissa Slotkin, a former CIA operative with three
tours in Iraq, who worked as Iraq director for the National Security
Council in the Obama White House and as a top aide to John Negroponte,
the first director of national intelligence. After her deep involvement
in US war crimes in Iraq, Slotkin moved to the Pentagon, where, as a
principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for international
security affairs, her areas of responsibility included drone warfare,
“homeland defense” and cyber warfare.
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