A career national security bureaucrat unleashed a wave of invective after overhearing a black woman in a Washington, D.C.-area coffee shop saying she planned to vote for former President Donald Trump.
Annetta Catchings, a former Republican candidate for mayor in Alexandria, Virginia, posted video of Patti Morrissey interrupting her private conversation after overhearing Catchings make a pro-Trump remark. Morrissey then went on a diatribe about how Trump is a felon and said “educated” people should not support him, citing her authority as a “35-year national security expert.”
According to a now-deleted LinkedIn profile, Morrissey worked in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the State Department, and the Pentagon through 2019. After online sleuths identified her, Morrissey blamed criticism coming her way on Russia, writing on Facebook that “there is a lot of…
