Did you know that one of the largest-single professional groups represented among Democratic candidates for Congressional offices in 2018, 2020, and 2022 was former intelligence operatives from either the CIA, the military branches, or other affiliated agencies?
The trend began in 2018, and Representative Seth Moulton set up the “Serve America” PAC to recruit and promote the group. Collectively, they have been dubbed the “CIA Democrats.” The ideal candidate was a young-to-middle-aged female intelligence-type—think Elissa Slotkin or Abigail Spanberger—who could run as a moderate and work from the inside to undermine conservatives in general and Donald Trump in particular.
Since Trump’s first election, dozens of such candidates sprang from obscurity, often within intelligence agencies, directly into powerful political offices and positions.
Think of them as the “regime change” or “color revolution” Democrats, and while they are not always the ideological leaders (Spanberger certainly is trying to take up the radical mantle now that she is in office, though), they are the tip of the spear both in front of the cameras and behind the scenes.
Democrats both times use former CIA agents to give the rebuttal for the State of The Union using Governor of Virginia Abigail Spanberger and Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin.
Does every message from the Democrats have to be from former CIA agents? pic.twitter.com/UEqJi6XxLb
— Derek Sanford (@DecodeThePlay) February 25, 2026
Since Trump’s re-election in 2024, the Democrats chose not one but two former CIA officers to deliver their response to Trump’s State of the Union speeches.
Two SOTUs, two CIA responses from the Democrats.
It doesn’t take a conspiracy theorist to notice that interesting fact, nor is it a surprise that a huge fraction of the “analysts” on left-wing media platforms who trash Donald Trump and call him a threat to democracy and a traitor to the nation are former intelligence or high-ranking military folks.
Obama’s top two intelligence officials—both of whom provably committed perjury in front of Congress—are trotted out to trash Trump and push hoaxes that they cooked up while in government. Still.
🚨 Former CIA operative Abigail Spanberger — now Virginia’s first female Governor — is delivering the Democrats’ official SOTU response.
This is no coincidence.
Democrats are pouring massive resources into female, “veteran”-branded candidates to flip key battleground states.… pic.twitter.com/ytIdCxEK8g
— Mark Lucas 🇺🇸 (@MarkLucasUSA) February 24, 2026
Democrats are pouring massive resources into female, “veteran”-branded candidates to flip key battleground states.
Look no further than Spanberger herself.
Soros-backed VoteVets dumped $1.6 MILLION into her gubernatorial race…
Even though she never served a single day in the military.
They paraded veteran endorsers and ran slick ads to sell her as a moderate, sensible, “CIA mom” who would reach across the aisle and put Virginia first.
It worked. She flipped the governorship in November.
But here’s what happened weeks after she took office:
She immediately and radically cut off all cooperation with ICE.
She issued executive orders stripping state police, corrections officers, and other law enforcement of their ability to partner with federal immigration authorities.
No more helping ICE remove criminal illegal aliens from our communities.
The radical left is openly sharing their 2026 playbook:
→ Run as “moderates” with veteran optics and big progressive money
→ Win critical swing races
→ Immediately implement the hard-left agenda once in power
The “Seditious Six” fit this profile perfectly. The goal is to use the credibility of being “moderate,” establishment, patriotic types to push what amounts to a color revolution.
SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP
Sitting Democrat Congressmen are encouraging the military and the CIA to break the chain of command
“This is devious and subversive. They are planting coup seeds inside the Pentagon and at Langley.
The CIA already interfered in… pic.twitter.com/zgfyYRS9mx
— Svetlana Lokhova (@RealSLokhova) November 21, 2025
The #resistance is and has been coordinated by high-ranking members of the so-called “intelligence community,” which includes the CIA, NSA, high-ranking FBI officials, FISA Court members, and some members of the military.
USAID was almost a wholly-owned subsidiary of the IC, which is why they went absolutely insane when Trump killed it. Tens of billions of dollars in resources, much of which was diverted to control over the international media, evaporated.
Did you ever notice that anytime Democrats need to organize a narrative against President Trump, they use current and/or former CIA assets?
🤔….
SOU Response – Spanberger
Seditious Six – Slotkin
Impeachment – Ciaramella
Attack Tulsi – Andrew Bakaj
Russiagate – Julia Gurganus…— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) February 25, 2026
Did you ever notice that anytime Democrats need to organize a narrative against President Trump, they use current and/or former CIA assets?
🤔….
SOU Response – Spanberger
Seditious Six – Slotkin
Impeachment – Ciaramella
Attack Tulsi – Andrew Bakaj
Russiagate – Julia Gurganus
Venezuela TdA – Mike Collins & Maria Langan-Riekhof
The list is very long and ongoing.
Current and former CIA operatives are driving the Democrat’s resistance effort.
If all this sounds conspiratorial, that’s because it is. But it is not exactly secret, so it doesn’t qualify as a “conspiracy theory.” Many of these people are proud of their service in the IC or intelligence-connected military or judicial system, and use those credentials as proof they are patriotic and devoted to “norms.”
I don’t know if this began under Obama, but it sure accelerated and became the dominant reason for being of much of CIA/IC activity. The intelligence community is or aspires to be a shadow government, and the Democrats seem happy to help in exchange for an opportunity to loot the Treasury.
This is:
The Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard,
—calls out every single member of Barack Obama’s national security syndicate, one by one, by name:
JOHN BRENNAN. JAMES CLAPPER. JAMES COMEY. AND SUSAN RICE.
Each deliberately and maliciously falsifying… pic.twitter.com/eCwbSiYpbq
— 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 (@Real_RobN) February 21, 2026
The Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard,
—calls out every single member of Barack Obama’s national security syndicate, one by one, by name:
JOHN BRENNAN. JAMES CLAPPER. JAMES COMEY. AND SUSAN RICE.
Each deliberately and maliciously falsifying intelligence as a means to overthrow the United States government in 2016, 2020, and 2024.
@DNIGabbard
“The most powerful people in our country were directly leading at the helm under Barack Hussein Obama and his senior national security cabinet—James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, Susan Rice—essentially making a very intentional decision to create this manufactured, politicized piece of intelligence with the objective of subverting the will of the American people, who in November 2016 delivered a historic victory to Donald Trump, defeating Hillary Clinton.
Barack Obama and his team’s goal was essentially to not accept the decision of the American people and to use this manufactured, politicized intelligence as a means to enact what would become, essentially, a years-long coup against President Trump. You have gone into great detail over these years about the effects this document and this decision have had.”
The FBI began spying on Trump’s team as early as 2015, and lied to the FISA Court to get warrants. Comey inserted the Steele Dossier into the public eye after John Brennan forced it into a CIA analysis of the 2016 election. CIA Democrats in Congress pushed it into impeachment proceedings, and when that failed, they cooked up the Ukraine impeachment.
In 2024, the FBI spied on Trump’s campaign and WIRETAPPED Suzy Wiles, including breaking attorney-client privilege to do so.
Fox News just published my op-ed on the subject.
One of the most egregious violations of attorney-client privilege I’ve ever heard of.
WILL CHAMBERLAIN: How the FBI trampled attorney-client privilege to hunt Trump allies https://t.co/vp9PHcCE3T
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) February 26, 2026
This is all color revolution stuff, and in many cases, it isn’t even hidden, just spun by the Democrats and Pravda as “defending democracy.”
Licensed since 1983. I haven’t heard of a breach of atty ethics remotely as serious as this appears to be, but perhaps Florida law allows a lawyer to entrap a client without the client’s consent —b/c who knows what a client is going to say, whether serious or in jest. Just wow. https://t.co/aV97JmIAgV
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) February 26, 2026
John Brennan was, in his youth, a communist. And Obama put him in the role of CIA Director. This is the result.
It’s all part of the insurgency, which we see right out in the open. The result is communists getting elected, Members of Congress telling the military not to follow civilian authority, and all the riots in the streets, prepared and paid for by billionaires who are, in some cases, openly supporting the Communist Party of China.
None of this is difficult to discern. It is not based on speculation. It just isn’t being reported by Pravda as what it is.
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