Source: Washington Post
“Forget what you’ve seen in every James Bond movie: Spies and casinos don’t mix. At least they shouldn’t mix, according to real-life spooks fighting a proposed Fairfax County casino as a national security threat. Home to CIA headquarters, the National Counterterrorism Center, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and countless supersecret defense and intelligence contractors, the D.C. suburb probably boasts more security clearances than anywhere else in America, says a group of ex-spies, who warn in a letter to state and local officials that building a casino in Tysons could lead those secret-keepers astray. … State Senate Majority Leader Scott A. Surovell (D-Fairfax), whose bill to allow the county to consider a casino advanced out of a Senate subcommittee Monday and will go before the General Laws and Technology Committee on Wednesday, dismisses that argument as ‘NIMBYism dressed up like spy warfare.'” (01/21/25)