After serving in CIA, lawmaker now has role overseeing it
Abigail Spanberger spent almost a decade as a CIA operations officer. Now, she’s a third-term Virginia congresswoman who was just named to one of two committees that oversees the work of U.S. spy agencies. The relationship between Congress and the U.S. intelligence community can be uneasy and is often adversarial. That's especially true now as lawmakers demand answers about classified documents found in the private possession of two presidents and how the Biden administration is responding to a suspected Chinese spy balloon. And years of high-profile fights over intelligence matters have taken a toll, with some Republicans accusing U.S. intelligence of being part of a so-called “deep state" controlling U.S. politics.
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Abigail Spanberger spent almost a decade as a CIA operations officer. Now, she’s a third-term Democratic congresswoman from Virginia who was just named to one of two committees that oversees intelligence.Â
