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The U.S.-born Rangappa, whose parents are from Karnataka, came out of the training and joined the New York Division of the FBI as a special agent in 2002. She believes that, at the time, she became the first Indian-American woman to do so. She specialized in counterintelligence investigations, assessing threats to national security, conducting classified investigations on suspected foreign agents and performing undercover work. After serving for three years, she quit. Planning to get married, she moved to Yale Universitys Jackson Institute for Global Affairs as an associate dean. I was thinking of starting a family at that time, she said.
From action to academia
Rangappa is now an associate dean at Yale, where she had received her law degree. She also teaches National Security Law and related courses, and is one of the most sought-after commentators for newspapers and TV on national security issues, particularly on the current investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election."
https://www.indiaabroad.com/indian-americans/the-real-girl-from-quantico-former-fbi-agent-asha-rangappa/article_cf68df5c-aaf7-11e7-b913-c3615ad4f390.html
Heard on NPR this a.m. the reason many Democrats are hesitating on impeachment is they aren't hearing from voters on it.
Please join me in calling them today to urge them to impeach the criminal Trump.
samnsara
(17,623 posts)orangecrush
(19,574 posts)mtnsnake
(22,236 posts)Pick up your phones and call every legislator you can. If you can't get through to someone's office, do not give up because you will eventually get through to someone in their office. Once you get through, let them know how you feel about it. Phoning is one of the best ways for voters to be of influence.
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Thank you!
orangecrush
(19,574 posts)Just called all 8 Pa. Dem reps!
Demsrule86
(68,595 posts)orangecrush
(19,574 posts)but doing nothing now will not help meet that goal.
Demsrule86
(68,595 posts)We are political junkies.
orangecrush
(19,574 posts)You do your work, which I applaud, and those who feel there might not be an election to work for without impeachment do our work?
Demsrule86
(68,595 posts)It is not worth the risk without conviction.
orangecrush
(19,574 posts)that with the power of an impeachment investigation, Trump will come up clean?
The Clintons did, and it backfired on the GOP.
Trump won't even release his taxes.
He would be exposed and sunk by impeachment.
Demsrule86
(68,595 posts)Suspects will whine about how unfair it is...would you have believed he could get elected in the first place? I have mixed feelings about this..he deserves impeachment. But I fear helping him to a second term.
orangecrush
(19,574 posts)But believe this - they are not invulnerable.
Nixon believed in his "Imperial Presidency" too.
Demsrule86
(68,595 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)Will help us kick Trump out - whether through impeachment (which I wish we could do but knowing how long it took to get Nixon out, I'm not hopeful) or by revealing his crimes so fewer people vote for him.
The country needs to see the people who aided and abetted Trump in his crimes testify at public hearings under oath. We need to hear from the investigators about what they found and why they did/could not charge Trump or any member of his family.
Put it all out in the open, no secret reports, no spinning information we are not allowed to share. Light it up for everyone to see!
orangecrush
(19,574 posts)Reps want to know they have our support moving forward.
One said so on NPR this a.m..
Time for some phone activism!
Demsrule86
(68,595 posts)USALiberal
(10,877 posts)orangecrush
(19,574 posts)we do not have to live through 5 more years - or a lifetime, if he gets his way - of this because of the appeasers.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Demsrule86
(68,595 posts)and it backfires.
Bettie
(16,111 posts)our base is demoralized because no one did anything about any of this.
There are risks to not acting too.
If you want Democrats to pretend that all of this is normal, business as usual, we lose.
Demsrule86
(68,595 posts)Since 2016 or maybe going back to 2000 and fuck them.You vote for the Democrat always....no matter what . I am sick of a whining demoralized so called base. And by the way. They are not the base. I am boots on the ground, work every election ,vote in every election...some candidates I I like better than others, but if I always vote. I am the base and others like me, we show up. The losers ( not Democrats) who don't show up or vote for green scum like Jill Stein and who helped elect Donald fucking Trump are not the base.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)mtnsnake
(22,236 posts)orangecrush
(19,574 posts)ecstatic
(32,712 posts)triron
(22,007 posts)Left a message-no call back (and she's a democrat!) They are hiding.
orangecrush
(19,574 posts)I did and got a real staffer 7 out of 8 times.
Nice polite people!
myohmy2
(3,164 posts)...kick...
montanacowboy
(6,093 posts)and I gave him an earful too
frogmarch
(12,154 posts)They helped in 1973.