Elissa Slotkin was born in the Bicentennial year and is 49 years old. She is a Democrat Senator who worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Motivated by the September 11 attacks while attending graduate school...
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at Columbia University, she was recruited as a Middle East analyst after graduation. Her CIA service included:
Roles: She served as a political analyst (2003–2004) and intelligence briefer (2004–2005).
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Deployments: She completed three tours in Iraq (2006–2007), where she led a CIA assessment team and worked alongside U.S. military forces to counter violent militias.
She is fluent in Arabic and Swahili, which facilitated her work in the region.
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She left the CIA in 2007 to join the National Security Council staff but continued to hold various national security positions under both the Bush and Obama administrations.
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