“I can see Russia from my mouse!”

Thus the epitaph for Senator Hillary Clinton’s political career (unless she follows Anthony Weiner, as some rumor she will, in running for mayor of New York), and indeed for the Clinton dynasty is basically a line stolen from Tina Fey’s mockery of Governor Sarah Palin.

With The View’s Joy Behar telling her audience of housekeepers and the unemployed that Donald Trump plans to put the hammer and sickle on the American flag, it is perhaps best to quote Karl Marx: “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.”

It seems they have been unduly influenced by the very same Russian government that in 2012 President Obama pronounced irrelevant when he mocked Mitt Romney: “The 1980’s called; they want their foreign policy back.”

For a while the Democrats were sitting back and waiting for the recounts instigated and fund raised by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein to save them. Word is still out on whether Dr. Stein will now be buying an even bigger vacation home than Senator Bernie Sanders. But the Democrats now have proof that Dr. Jill is also a Russian agent and her recount Russian funded – after all, it actually produced bigger margins for Donald Trump!

Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, a lobbyist who profits from steering legislation (his ex wife even represents a for-profit university that the federal government did not crack down on, while it did bankrupt I.T.T., a major competitor), wants the Electoral College “briefed” with the correct information about how Russia stole the election from Hillary, according to unnamed persons within the CIA.

One problem for the Clinton narrative is that a Wikileaks associate who is a former British Ambassador, Craig Murray, has now come forward and said the information that Wikileaks published about how the DNC rigged its primaries, etc, was leaked not hacked, and the leaker was not Russian.

Another problem is that the FBI and other intelligence agencies do not agree with the CIA’s conclusions.

A third problem, observed by independent journalists on the left, like the always informative Michael Tracey, is that the information leaked about Hillary and the Democrats was all true, even if the mainstream media did their best to hide it from the public.

This led to me to reflect on my own experiences, as a long term D.C. resident, with CIA agents and affiliates.

I live in Washington, D.C., where for many years I was a very active realtor. I worked in both a boutique firm where I was for years the top sales agent, and also in the largest ReMax franchise where one year I won the annual award for the most sales by a sole practitioner.

Some of my clients, including my repeat clients, were employed at the CIA.

All of my CIA clients were liberal Democrats. I liked them. (My particular CIA clients were all also either women or gay). It’s Washington, D.C., which voted more than 90 percent for Hillary, and 4 percent for Donald Trump, so it’s not surprising that my CIA clients were also liberal Democrats.

One of my CIA clients bought a house from me in Foxhall Village, a neighborhood just west of Georgetown University, where I lived for a time. The night Kerry was not elected I fell asleep on an enclosed sun porch in a chair in front of the television, thinking John Kerry had been elected.

I awoke to banging on my back door. My CIA client and neighbor was beating on my door, distraught. She had a bottle of white wine. New votes were in, Bush was winning, and she needed to watch the coverage with someone and have a drink she was so upset.  (My liberal clients routinely assumed I was a liberal before I started writing about politics because I am gay.)  (Years later the same client was very proud she went to the White House and did the daily briefing on the middle east one day for President Obama.)

So I thought I’d look at the OpenSecrets site and see to which candidates CIA agents donate.

Of course, most CIA employees do not tell you that’s what they are. They usually say they work for the government. If you dig, sometimes that say they work for the Foreign Broadcast Information Service or some other agency connected to foreign affairs.

But there are people who have donated at least $200 to a candidate and listed their employer as the CIA or the Central Intelligence Agency.

If you look them up by employer on OpenSecrets.org for the 2016 election cycle, what you find are donations by CIA employees or people who say they are retired from the CIA.

There is one donation to Ted Cruz.

There are a couple to Donald Trump.

There are almost a dozen to Marco Rubio.

There are a couple not to Gary Johnson but to the Libertarian National Committee.

And there are dozens both to Hillary Clinton and also to the Democratic National Committee.

Are these the people John Podesta wants to have run the re-education camps for the Electoral College?