Too bad it’s going to be either Trump or Hillary- at least this man has served and sacrificed honorably on behalf of his country:
McMullin joined the CIA as a student trainee while an undergraduate at Brigham Young University. He would alternate semesters between the university and training at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. During that time, he spent a year in Israel and Jordan learning Arabic. He also worked for a refugee resettlement program run by the United Nations.
After graduating in 2001, McMullin joined the CIA’s directorate of operations, which runs clandestine missions abroad. He was in a computer training class at Langley headquarters when the 9/11 attacks occurred. After that, McMullin’s 18-month training to be an undercover operative was sped up, and he soon found himself in a southwest Asian country where the U.S. military was deeply engaged in the new war on terror. The specific country remains classified to protect his contacts there.
The CIA station chief who supervised McMullin in his first overseas assignment told me that McMullin stood out among all the new case officers because of his insistence on going outside the safe confines of the embassy to meet and develop human- intelligence assets. As a Mormon, McMullin could not indulge in the vices that often help to build such bonds, so he used his piousness and his experience before college as a missionary in Brazil to his advantage.
“He believes in what he says and that’s how he recruited people,” the station chief said. “People fundamentally trust Evan.”
While specific details of McMullin’s missions remain classified, intelligence goals at that time included gathering information on the Taliban, developing intelligence for strikes on terrorists and searching for high-value al-Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden, his former boss said.
Kevin Hulbert, a former senior CIA official in the directorate of operations who worked with McMullin overseas, told me that McMullin’s steady personality, honesty and work ethic reassured potential intelligence sources who were risking their lives to help the United States.
“People who would be assets were drawn to that type of person. They needed to trust that he wouldn’t get them killed,” Hulbert said. “There were a lot of people who took an easier route at the agency. Evan was always in the middle of the fight.”
McMullin served his later years as an undercover officer in Iraq while the U.S. military was battling a brutal Sunni insurgency and collecting intelligence on what was then called al-Qaeda in Iraq but is now the Islamic State. McMullin worked in Iraq until 2010, when the country achieved a degree of stability and the terrorist threat was temporarily minimized.
~~~ CIA public affairs said it does not disclose personnel information. But retired Gen. Michael Hayden, who was CIA director during three of the years McMullin worked there, told me he independently confirmed McMullin’s account of his service.
“Take it to the bank,” said Hayden. “He did what he said he did.”
Are voter’s in Utah aware that this “former” CIA operative was in Turkey plotting how to arm ISIS-affiliated “rebels” in Syria? Is he any different than Clinton in this?
He did introduce ISIS leaders to John McCain.
I think a couple of those men are dead now, thanks to the Kurds and Russia.
Here, in Utah, people jokingly refer to him as ”Egg McMuffin.”
I find it hard to believe he will garner anywhere near the votes the media claims he’s going to get.
(Or the Mormon-controlled polls via Deseret News.)
http://kutv.com/news/local/mcmullins-utah-filing-may-spark-change-to-state-law
In Utah
Real Serious…..NOT.
MYTH 9: SEN. JOHN MCCAIN MET WITH ISIS:
McCain rips claim he posed for photo with ISIS fighters
Rand Paul Eats Up Hoax That John McCain Met With ISIS
Try as He May, John McCain Can’t Shake Falsehoods About Ties to ISIS
@Wordsmith:
THIS Free Syrian Army?
https://pjmedia.com/blog/us-vetted-moderate-free-syrian-army-brigades-surrender-weapons-pledge-allegiance-to-islamic-state/
US ‘Vetted Moderate’ Free Syrian Army Brigades Surrender Weapons, Pledge Allegiance to Islamic State
JULY 7, 2014
This McCain?
Washington’s Al Qaeda Ally Now Leading ISIS in Libya
Belhadj served the US cause in Libya so well that he can be seen receiving accolades from Sen. John McCain who referred to Belhadj and his followers as heroes. He was initially rewarded after the fall of Gaddafi with the post of military commander of Tripoli, though he was forced to give way to a more politically palatable “transitional government” which has since evaporated in that chaotic, war-ravaged country.
These McCain jihadists, ahem, “freedom fighters”?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/08/free-syrian-army-rebels-defect-islamist-group
Free Syrian Army rebels defect to Islamist group Jabhat al-Nusra
Illustrating their plight, FSA commanders say that entire units have gone over to al-Nusra while others have lost a quarter or more of their strength to them recently.
@Nanny G: Your Creeping Sharia links have questionable credibility. I’d have to research their research- and frankly don’t have enough time and interest at the moment.
The history of the Free Syrian Army is far more complicated; and in the early days, it was not overrun with jihadis and Islamists; but the fact that we and the West did not quickly jump on their bandwagon for active support for their movement against Assad pretty well forced them to do what we all do- the enemy of my enemy is my friend– and align with those willing to fight and support them against their number one cause for existing: Fighting Assad.
And it’s for the very reason that those fighting in their ranks have been suspect that the Obama Administration did not involve itself more deeply and more actively in supporting and funding (the arming and training and funding has been extremely limited) the opposition. There are just too many groups involved and the Administration has been more cautious than irresponsible.