Washington
A high-ranking US intelligence official died by suicide in front of his wife, leading to a CIA investigation of his death, amid public silence from his peers. The death of Anthony Schinella, national intelligence officer for military issues, comes at a time when his expertise might have been crucial. He shot himself in the front yard of his home in Arlington, Virginia, on 14 June, according to a medical examiner’s report seen by The Intercept. His work was particularly sensitive as the most senior military affairs intelligence analyst and as a member of the National Intelligence Council, which prepares reports for senior policymakers in Congress and the president. The work of the NIC has come under recent scrutiny following the uproar over the release of intelligence reports that Russia was paying the Taliban bounties to kill American troops in Afghanistan.
