C.I.A. Officer-Turned-Candidate Says GOP PAC Obtained Her Security Application, & released to media.

[HipChick]

WASHINGTON — A former C.I.A. officer running for Congress accused a super PAC aligned with Speaker Paul D. Ryan on Tuesday of improperly obtaining her entire federal security clearance application — a highly sensitive document containing extensive personal information — and then using it for political purposes.

Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic candidate challenging Representative Dave Brat of Virginia, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Corry Bliss, the executive director of the Congressional Leadership Fund, which has raised more than $100 million to help Republicans in the midterm elections. She demanded that the super PAC destroy all copies of the form and agree to not use the information in any fashion.

“I write as a former civil servant and as an American, in shock and anger, that you have tried to exploit my service to our country by exposing my most personal information in the name of politics,” she wrote.

The super PAC released a statement on Tuesday strongly denying Ms. Spanberger’s charge, saying that the document was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the United States Postal Service by America Rising, a separate Republican-aligned research firm.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/us/politics/cia-officer-house-election-super-pac.html

[VMA131Marine]

1. No way this information is available through a FOIA request

Under normal circumstances. These forms go into minute detail on your background, including friends, family, every foreign contact you've had, not to mention financial information. You have to wonder if some MAGAt working in OPM, and knowing this was a political request, released it maliciously.

It's also possible that the information came from sources in China. A huge number of these records were hacked and stolen about 6 or 7 years ago and the source of the hack was identified as somewhere in China.

[HipChick]

2. True...but I can't see them singular releasing just her information...

Reading the whole story, seems like the PAC was trying to get a specific piece of information out there...

Most sec applications are done electronically now...

[HipChick]

3. Maddow covering this now...how the hell are the Trump admin getting away with this?

[unitedwethrive]

4. The repub party is just evil

Honestly, it’s like the villain in some late night movie.

[uponit7771]

5. This is so screwed up, they can't be more treasonous

[HipChick]

6. I hope there is a huge lawsuit over this..

[uponit7771]

7. +1

[LiberalFighter]

8. It appears that Paul Ryan also pass the info out.

He should know it was illegal.