Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump responded Monday to the long march of GOP national security officials who have rejected him to endorse Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by touting a new turncoat of his own: James Woolsey, President Bill Clinton’s former CIA director.
But in announcing Woolsey’s support, the Trump campaign omitted mention that the former top U.S. spy resigned in 1994 following widespread criticism he’d mishandled the CIA’s discovery of double agent Aldrich H. Ames, who was convicted of spying for Moscow for nearly nine years.
President Clinton reportedly did not protest when Woolsey, the CIA’s first post-Cold War director stepped down after two years in charge. CIA officials had not only failed to discover Ames, but also promoted him as the agent gave secrets to Soviet officials from April 1985 to his arrest in February of 1994. After Ames was exposed, Woolsey himself called the scandal that rocked the CIA a “systemic failure.”
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Now there's an endorsement New York liberal Donald Trump can be proud of!
