‘Purged’ CIA Officials Plan Their Return At ‘Deep State Plot’ Party At Gay Karaoke Bar

LGBTQ officers in the intelligence community who claimed to have been “silenced or purged” by the Trump administration are seemingly plotting their return to intelligence roles, according to HUMINT founder and intelligence correspondent Sasha Ingber.

Ingber wrote in the Substack post that she recently attended a “resignation party soiree” at a gay karaoke bar in Virginia, which was partly celebrating former CIA analyst Julia Curlee. Curlee previously was the first-ever CIA officer to openly transition and remain serving in the role until she was laid off earlier on in President Donald Trump’s second term, PBS News reported.

The invitation for the party jokingly said: “Come join the Deep State plot against the regime,” Ingber wrote in the post.

“More than a sadness at being silenced or purged … an anger at being reduced to ‘DEI,’ at not being able to using their invaluable expertise to serve a country they had sworn to protect,” she wrote further. “A country they still believe in. A patient but razor-like resoluteness. For justice and the job.”

Ingber also suggested in a video posted to Substack that the people in attendance at the event seemed upset that they had been “reduced to an identity that was really only about appearance or sexual orientation.”

“That’s the absoluteness that I picked up on from people, a sense that for these people who were pressured and purged for participating in , which is seen as such a crime these days,” Ingber said. “That they no longer have their work. That they were reduced to an identity that was really only about appearance or sexual orientation.”