She seems very bright, but she has some really horrible advisors. She opposed Amazon because she thought they were going to bring a bunch of warehouse jobs to her district, her staff knew that these were $100,000+ per year positions and that there was a major infrastructure upgrade at company expense in the package, but seems to not have told her that so she opposed $4.5 billion in jobs. Equally she probably thinks that she's getting the real inside scoop on what's going on from the CIA/NSA/etc. I've seen the bulletins that Fatherland Security puts out, and they're Hollywood script level garbage. They should at least hire the writers from 'Burn Notice' so they can invent "threats" that are technically possible. TLDR; When one is inside the DC "bubble" you really only know what you're being told, not what is actually going on. I suppose that's why they call it Brainwashington.