CIA Amigas

Senator Elissa Slotkin wants people to be afraid of working for the Trump administration and, last November, she joined a call for military personnel to “refuse illegal orders.” The Michigan Democrat didn’t say what sort of orders American troops should disobey, but she has left clues.

In 2020 Rep. Slotkin described the Trump administration’s drone strike on Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimaini as a “provocative and disproportionate” act that imperils U.S. military service members and diplomats. Slotkin told reporters that friends and colleagues had been “hurt or killed” by rockets, mortars, and explosive devices that Soleimani had provided  Iraqi “proxies,” but that was no grounds for an attack that could “pull us into protracted conflict.”

The protracted conflict with Iran began in 1979 when Iran, under the Ayatollah Khomeini, invaded the U.S. embassy in Tehran, took 66 Americans hostage and held most of them for more than a year. Slotkin was three at the time and Georgia Democrat Jimmy Carter was in the White House. The CIA, then under command of Admiral Stansfield Turner, failed to predict or prevent, that act of war. The secret agency also failed to prevent the massive attack of Sept. 11, 2001.

Slotkin claims 9/11 motivated her to join the CIA, where she served as an “intelligence analyst.” She also worked for the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the National Security Council and State Department. According to her website, Slotkin was nominated to serve as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. In reality, she was “acting” assistant secretary and never confirmed by the Senate.