A top CIA official warned that an extended government shutdown could pose serious national security risks to the US, and that the foreign intelligence agency was already struggling to fund some critical operations.
The longer the shutdown continues, “the more strains we’ll see on national security,” Michael Ellis, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said Thursday during a panel discussion at the National Lawyers Convention in Washington.
Most employees at the CIA are deemed essential workers and therefore currently working without pay, said Ellis, who was appointed by President
“While our officers have been ...