Homeland Security Analyst: You Don’t Get Attached to a Top Secret CIA Unit Without Vetting, ARNG Shooting Is Bonkers

Sanchez: “I wanted to go back to something that you alluded to a moment ago, and that is the suspect’s previous relationship with the U.S. government and his work in Afghanistan, including with the CIA, according to Director John Ratcliffe. How do you read that relationship?”

HARVIN: “You know, everything I have read that’s open source available says that he served honorably and was trusted at a very high level. Like, you don’t get attached to a secret, top secret unit with the CIA and special operations if you haven’t been vetted even before the evacuation, right? So they trusted this individual, quite possibly with their life, to make sure that they wouldn’t leak any information to adversaries of what they’re doing, their movements, what they’re looking for. And so something drastic has had to happen over the last three years since he’s gotten here, Boris. This is really, really unprecedented. And in a year that the word unprecedented has been used an unprecedented amount of times, we need to just sit back and look at how bonkers this is that someone would actually open fire on U.S. service members. I did some research before we came on. I haven’t seen any incident of this in my lifetime, and I’m over 50 years old.”

Sanchez: “Donell Harvin, thank you so much for the perspective. Appreciate you.”