For the community: the WSWS List of CIA Dems

Submitted by arendt on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 3:01pm

I was unable to find a compact, easy to read list of the CIA Dems on the web. The WSWS article is too prose-y and inconsistent in its details. So, I took an hour to create my own version of that list.

I encourage you to circulate this list is a public service. (Hey, Wink, put it on the Patreon?) I think showing people that half the Democratic primary candidates are some kind of ex-military/intel, up to their eyeballs in the illegal, dirty, counterproductive wars shows exactly who is in charge in the party.

I think that showing up at a rally of one of these warloving, MENA-trashing creeps and pointedly asking them to justify the obscene military budget, the endless wars, the $100 B black budget and the legalization of propagandizing the US is about the only way to get some exposure on the crap the DNC is pulling, since it sure doesn't look like the Our Revolution crowd is going to be doing much exposing.

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The list is reproduced below as a .csv file (comma separated variable), which is suitable for reading into just about any file type. I created the csv file from a spreadsheet.

Sorting is alphabetical BY STATE.
Repeated commas indicate empty cells of the spreadsheet. These occur only at the right, where I was tallying up the number of people with various backgrounds
(organization found in first row: army, AF, navy, marines, CIA, state).
Sometimes the "Organization" record also contains comments, like "endorsed by".
The totals for these backgrounds are in the final row: ,,,,9,2,4,5,6,8. That is:

Army 9
Air Force 2
Navy 4
Marines 5
CIA 6
State 8

Here is the CSV file's contents (just copy and paste into a text file, then use that file as input to a spreadsheet or other file.

ON EDIT: Maura Sullivan is NH-1 - not NH-2, as stated by WSWS. Please let me know other corrections.

"Candidate","State-district","Organization",,"Army","Air Force","Navy","Marines","CIA","State"
"Jessica Morse","California-4","State Dept.",,,,,,,1
"Regina Bateson","California-4","State Dept – sex trafficking",,,,,,,1
"Omar Siddiqui","California-48","FBI advisor counter-terrorism; CIA ",,,,,,1,
"Sara Jacobs","California-49","State Dept – Africa counterterrorism",,,,,,,1
"Douglas Applegate","California-49","Marine corps – gunship pilot",,,,,1,,
"Josh Butner","California-50","23 years navy seal",,,,1,,,
"Jason Crow","Colorado-6","82nd airborne, army rangers",,1,,,,,
"Lauren Baer","Florida-18","State Department",,,,,,,1
"Nancy Soderberg","Florida-6","NSC",,,,,,,1
"Johnathan Ebel","Illinois-13","Naval Intelligence",,,,1,,,
"Amy McGrath","Kentucky-6","Marine fighter pilot",,,,,1,,
"Jesse Colvin","Maryland-1","US Army ranger, Army intelligence,",,1,,,,,
"Matthew Morgan","Michigan-1","Marine corps",,,,,1,,
"Elissa Slotkin","Michigan-8","CIA operative,NSC",,,,,,1,
"Dan Feehan","Minnesota-1","Army ",,1,,,,,
"Dan McCready","N. Carolina-9","Marine corps – gunship pilot",,,,,1,,
"Maura Sullivan","New Hampshire-1","Marine corps",,,,,1,,
"Mikie Sherrill","New Jersey-11","Navy helicopter",,,,1,,,
"Andy Kim","New Jersey-3","Pentagon,NSC","x",,,,,,
"Tom Malinowski","New Jersey-7","State Department",,,,,,,1
"Jeffrey Beals","New York-19","CIA intelligence officer",,,,,,1,
"Patrick Ryan","New York-19","Army (West Point)",,1,,,,,
"Shelley Chauncey","Pennsylvania-5","CIA counter-intel, Latin America, Asia",,,,,,1,
"Chrissy Houlahan","Pennsylvania-6","Air force ",,,1,,,,
"Matt Reel","Tennessee-7","on active COVERT duty",,1,,,,,
"Gina Ortiz Jones","Texas-23","Air Force intelligence officer",,,1,,,,
"Mary Jennings Hegar","Texas-31","helicopter pilot, sued to fly, movie",,1,,,,,
"Kent Lester","Texas-31","West Point, ",,1,,,,,
"Edward Meier","Texas-32 – LOST!","State Department",,,,,,,1
"Daniel Helmer","Virginia-10","endorsed by CIA directors & M. Flournoy",,,,,,1,
"Elaine Luria","Virginia-2","Navy",,,,1,,,
"Abigail Spanberger","Virginia-7","CIA – 10 years",,,,,,1,
"Talley Sergent","W. Virginia-2","State Dept – sex trafficking",,,,,,,1
"Aaron Scheinberg","W. Virginia-2","West Point, Odierno, M. Flourney assoc.",,1,,,,,
"Richard Ojeda","W. Virginia-3","20 years army airborne",,1,,,,,
,,,,9,2,4,5,6,8

Good hunting.

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Submitted by arendt on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 3:24pm
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Douglas Applegate, Dan McCready.

Just what qualifies jarhead gunslingers to be Congressmen? I must have missed where the Marine Corps is selecting for people who do nuance and make compromises.

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Submitted by edg on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 4:34pm
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@arendt

A Marine helo pilot has to decide whether to splatter body pieces around with the 7.62 mm machine gun or with the 6 barrel Gatling gun or with 70 mm rockets. How much more nuance do you need?

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Submitted by arendt on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 5:12pm
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@edg

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Submitted by arendt on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 5:24pm
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Amy McGrath, Mary Jennings Hegar, ON EDIT: Mikie Sherrill.

Geez, are we going to have an aerial dogfight in the House of Representatives?

What the fuck does being Top Gun wannabee hotshot have to do with reprsenting citizens and passing decent laws?

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Submitted by Snode on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 3:38pm

Heavy rests the thumb on the scales of democracy. How much more pro military government can we survive?

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Submitted by MrWebster on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 5:12pm

If memory serves I seem to remember article awhile ago that establishment power brokers were deliberately looking for a number of attributes. Two of which I remember as "military" and "small business owner". I randomly looked up Dan McCready and fits that profile. Off hand, I am getting impression of candidates who are "socially liberal republicans". Basically democrats took the image of republican candidates and smoothed out the edges.

Jeez just looked up Chrissy Houlahan and she is a "air-force captain, entrepreneur". (McCready owned a solar business).

I guess the days of electing "community organizers" is over, and by that I mean not Obama but advocates for the poor, health care, etc.

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Submitted by arendt on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 5:26pm
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@MrWebster

Republicans are the new John Birchers.

None of these warmongers ever listened to Eisenhower's Farewell Address

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Or his other gem, the "Chance for Peace" speech, after Stalin's death in 1953:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.
It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.
We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.
We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking.
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

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Submitted by Alligator Ed on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 5:17pm
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I don't believe in you.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KloKTUUGZvc]

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Submitted by SoylentGreenisPeople on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 6:21pm

. . . . from the Black Agenda Report, about the upcoming election cycles, and how Dems plan to pander to the lefties, while changing nothing substantive (and also while running on the CIA ticket):

https://blackagendareport.com/democrats-prepare-pimp-left-again-2018-and...

(I don't get it with these blacks at BAR. Don't they understand that the Democratic Party is on their side, especially in view of the Democrats' identity politics rhetoric? Why won't these blacks get with the program, and join this "party of diversity" and "social justice?" Why won't they join the chorus at places like GOS? I would think they'd understand, having been subject to Jim Crow in the past, how important things like transgender bathrooms are, and that the Democrats are on the side of such things. Man, you can never satisfy such "uppity" people . . . .)

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 6:57pm
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bidding and so they are going to cut out the middle man and do their own work instead. And if people don't have the time to research the candidates then they won't know what their histories are. I know that when I first started voting I didn't take the time to do that, I just went with what initial they had after their names. This couldn't be what they are counting on now is it? Nah!

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Submitted by Wink on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 9:19pm
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Thanks for the work!
And posted on Patreon at... our Patreon page

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Submitted by Wink on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 10:00pm
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at... our Patreon page.

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Submitted by Mark from Queens on Wed, 05/02/2018 - 7:59am
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Greenwald was on Jimmy Dore for a long-ranging discussion, in which he talked about this encroaching militarism in the party being a very bad thing:

...and it feels to me a lot like the Iraq war, where there's this overwhelming bipartisan orthodoxy in the media class at least which is that Trump is a puppet of Putin, that he colluded with the KGB, that if the Russians are this grave existential threat, and anyone who deviates from it is subjected to the most insane smears, despite the fact that all you're doing is demanding evidence, which is what happened to the dissenters in the Iraq war.

There's this kind of ethos that has re-arisen rear, which is that our intelligence agencies, our military, our government, people have such short memories that are so short - that they speak the truth. And that their pronouncements are things that we put our faith in and rely on, because they're noble Patriots. It just feels very much like that climate.

And you know it is frustrating sometimes because I think it's very dangerous I think it's extremely dangerous this whole resistance ethos, the principles on which it's based, the people that they're venerating all of the time.

All of this is going to endure way beyond once Donald Trump's gone. There's a whole generation of people who are identify as liberals being inculcated with jingoism and militarism, and these very warped notions of uber- nationalism and patriotism, that I think are just going to do damage for a long time to come.

The whole thing is pretty amazing and well worth watching.

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