This race is going to be very nasty---
from nytimes:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/us/politics/cia-officer-house-election-super-pac.html
............Even before being approached by a reporter, Ms. Spanberger said in the interview that she had become suspicious that the application had been leaked because Republican-aligned groups conducting “push polling” in the race had been asking respondents whether they knew she had once taught at the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Va., an international baccalaureate program.
One of her supporters received a call from the polling company and reported that she was asked if she would be less likely to support Ms. Spanberger if she knew that the candidate had taught at a school funded by the Saudi royal family that had “numerous students arrested for terrorism,” Ms. Spanberger said.
A recent graduate from the University of Virginia at the time, Ms. Spanberger returned to the United States in 2002 after teaching in Germany and earning a master’s degree. She applied for a job at the C.I.A. that year and was told in December that she had a conditional offer pending her background check, which she was told could take at least six months.
She waited tables in the interim, and a colleague asked her if she would be interested in a temporary job teaching English at the academy to cover for another instructor’s maternity leave, Ms. Spanberger said.
As she awaited final word from the C.I.A., she took a job at the Postal Inspection Service, the law enforcement arm of the Postal Service. She said she filled out the federal forms for both jobs at about the same time. She also said she informed the C.I.A. each time she took on new employment...............................
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/404101-ex-cia-house-candidate-accuses-gop-super-pac-of-obtaining-her-security
........The CLF also released a part of the application with some personal information redacted, pointing to Spanberger’s work at the Islamic Saudi Academy in Northern Virginia, which the statement says has radical leanings.
Spanberger’s campaign lawyer Graham Wilson told the Times, “In this unredacted form, this is not a document that the government can provide under the Privacy Act.”
Spanberger told the Times that she took the English teacher job at the Islamic Saudi Academy as a temporary position while she was waiting to hear back on her background check for a conditional offer at the CIA.
“To be clear, we have no reason to believe that Republican groups have illegally obtained any of your personnel files, nor are we certain how CLF got Ms. Spanberger’s document in the first place,” Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) told the Times. “But even the evidence of this isolated incident is deeply troubling.”
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