One day while picking my son up from day care, I noticed all the kids checking me out in a very particular manner. I asked him what they had done today, and apparently, they had been talking about what their parents did for work.
"I couldn't remember if you are with the FBI or the CIA, but the guys thought it was pretty cool" he said
While he had a few details wrong, it made for a good story at morning coffee with my IBM colleagues the next day.
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In a 2022 interview with NicolleDWallace, former CIA Officer Tracy Walder expressed concern that the documents unlawfully retained by former President Donald Trump could be linked to the deaths of CIA informants overseas. What caused her concern? The known timeline.
On May 6, 2021, the #USNatArchives
contacted the representatives of the former president demanding he return the documents that he had unlawfully retained and concealed.
October 7, 2021: Months later, the nytimes reported that the #CIA, "said in a top secret cable [sent] to stations and bases around the world that too many of the people it recruits from other countries are being lost."
Speaking with Nicolle Wallace, former CIA Officer #tracy_waldersaid the following: "I started thinking a little about the timeline of the documents, and when the #USNatArchives first really approached Trump, which was MAY-ish of 2021
just a few months later in October of 2021, the CIA issued a worldwide cable, saying, 'hey do a better job of keeping your assets safe because we're noticing that they're being killed'...I find the timing of that highly unusual."