It provided a copy of the FOIA request and a reply from the Postal Service saying it was providing Spanberger’s personnel file in ­response. Spanberger worked as a postal inspector, a job that also required security clearance, before joining the CIA. The super PAC responded by releasing a copy of the FOIA request that America Rising Corp. submitted to the National Personnel Records Center on July 9. The super PAC notes that Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, the school’s 1999 valedictorian, was convicted in 2005 on charges of providing material support to the al Qaeda and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Emily’s List, the political group trying to elect more Democratic women, accused the super PAC of “weaponizing” Spanberger’s security questionnaire.

Source: Washington Post August 29, 2018 18:16 UTC