An extraordinary number of former intelligence and military operatives from the CIA, Pentagon, National Security Council and State Department are seeking nomination as Democratic candidates for Congress in the 2018 midterm elections. The potential influx of military-intelligence personnel into the legislature has no precedent in US political history.

After Obama filled the intelligenc community (IC) with his cronies to commit illegal acts that have left the majority of Americans distrustful of IC members in general, now the Democrats turn to "patriotic" imagery for their candidates. It is to laugh

The Democratic leaders are promoting CIA agents and Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans.

Obviously about getting the conservative vote where the republicans are already vulnerable

The "Red to Blue" Program

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has designated Slotkin as one of its top candidates, part of the so-called “Red to Blue” program targeting the most vulnerable Republican-held seats—in this case, the Eighth Congressional District of Michigan, which includes Lansing and Brighton. The House seat for the district is now held by two-term Republican Representative Mike Bishop.

Elissa Slotkin
-former CIA operative with three tours in Iraq
-Iraq director for the National Security Council in the Obama White House
-top aide to John Negroponte, the first director of national intelligence
-moved to the Pentagon, where, as a principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, her areas of responsibility included drone warfare, “homeland defense” and cyber warfare

Other such candidates

Gina Ortiz Jones - Air Force intelligence officer in Iraq, adviser for US interventions in South Sudan and Libya
Jay Hulings - national security aide on Capitol Hill, federal prosecutor

As the WSWS article notes, the Democong candidates

have military-intelligence, State Department or NSC backgrounds. This is by far the largest subcategory of Democratic candidates. National security operatives (57) outnumber state and local government officials (45), lawyers (35), corporate executives, businessmen and wealthy individuals (30) and other professionals (19) among the candidates for Democratic congressional nominations.

Of the 102 primary elections to choose the Democratic nominees
-44 candidates with a military-intelligence or State Department background
(11 districts having two such candidates, 1 district having three)
-In the majority of contests, the military-intelligence candidates seem likely to win the Democratic nomination

The military-intelligence candidates are disproportionately favored by the party apparatus, encouraged to run in districts that are the most likely takeover targets. Military-intelligence candidates account for 10 of the 22 districts selected for the most high-profile attention as part of the “red-to-blue” program, or nearly half. In some cases, military-intelligence candidates have amassed huge campaign war chests that effectively shut out any potential rivals, an indication that the financial backers of the Democratic Party have lined up behind them.

The Deep State versus the Far Left?

A commenter on the 4chan link suggests this:

The Dems are having an internal war. The establishment is trying to kill off the far left by encouraging centrists neo-liberal candidates to run. Who else do they have if not these people? It's no different than the establishment Reps not supporting further right conservatives.
These next two or three election cycles will be a major battle to see whether the establishment or populists control the major parties.

A couple of indicators support this theory:

See the link below (Democratic Congressional Candidate Built Lucrative Career Spying on Left-Wing Activists) for a discussion on Democrat Patrick Ryan, and his long term domestic surveillance programs against both Right and Left.
Far Left loon Beachhouse Bernie has been pulling his support from...less communist, not centrist... candidates like Feinstien and pushing for pure dingbats like Moser.
Gotta love those dedicated socialists with THREE houses, don't we, folks? ;>

Don't forget the links between the Democrat party and the media (JournoList, Wikileak's leaks re: DNC/media collusion, etc)...now factor in CIA/media links (i.e., Mockingbird)...also Obama's authorization of propaganda directed at the American public (links below)

It's funny that the left has done such a good job of discrediting the CIA (while it was opposing Communists) only to find their own "glow in the dark" candidates in suspicion after infiltrating it; like criticizing the "military industrial complex" for years then flipping 100% to deny the existence of the deep state LOL.

From the 4chan thread...

These guys can “remake” their life history (including birth certificates, apparently) Makes it easier to run on Democrat ticket & oust Republicans with misinformation, hidden information erased from web, plus voter fraud, illegal votes.

You'll note that the news sources trend hard left for the initial story; I have added supplementary readfing from Right wing sources m( I don't think there is such an animal as "centrist" news these days).

Conclusion

I'll go with the 4chan comment that this is the visible results of the internal democong war between the hard left and the globalist leftists... and that these are both enemies for free Americans to destroy.

Put on your thinking cap
What is the best method to get them to rip each other to in effectual shreds. Let's get this out on the Right, and find out how.