>Why These Two Former Female CIA Agents Are Running for Office
When Abigail Spanberger decided to run for Congress in Virginia’s Seventh District, step one was telling loved ones—including her three daughters—she was entering politics. Step two: dropping the bomb that she used to be in the CIA, before news broke. “I had concerns my girls would be at school and kids would say, ‘Oh, your mom was the “spy,’” she says. It is a point of interest on the trail: “Women—men too, but especially women—hear my background and say, ‘That’s badass.’”
Elissa Slotkin, 41, a Democrat running for Congress in Michigan’s Eighth District, is also former CIA. As a Middle East analyst with expertise in Iraqi politics from 2003 to 2011, she evaluated caches of intelligence after the U.S. invaded Iraq and presented it to senior officials, including the president.
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