CIA Silent on the Looming Shutdown

Spies will continue work, with or without pay

As befits a secret service, the CIA doesn’t want to talk how it’s going to handle the looming government shutdown. But it will quietly cope, CIA veterans say, as it has 14 times since Ronald Reagan became president in 1981 and Republicans turned federal agency shutdowns into a regular Washington clown show.

The last one, in late 2018, over Trump’s deman…