<span class="vcard">Alex Finley</span>

Alex Finley

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Alex Finley (BlueskyX) is a former officer of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, where she served in West Africa and Europe. Before becoming a bureaucrat living large off the system, she chased puffy white men around Washington DC as a member of the wild dog pack better known as the Washington media elite. Her writing has appeared in SlateReductressFunny or DiePOLITICO, and other publications. She has spoken to C-SPAN’s Washington JournalCBC’s The NationalSirius XM’s Yahoo! PoliticsThe Cipher Brief, the Spy Museum’s SpyCast, and numerous other media outlets. She is the author of two satires of the CIA.

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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) seal is displayed in the lobby of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, on August 14, 2008. AFP PHOTO/SAUL LOEB (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
Voters cast their ballots on Election Day November 04, 2008, at Centreville High School in Clifton, Virginia.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), speaks at a press conference while Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Devin Nunes (R-CA), and Doug Collins (R-GA), stand with him on stage.
Trump and Barr
Trump meets Putin during the G20 Summit on July 7, 2017 in Hamburg, Germany.

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