What intelligence work does Leah of The Leah Files say she did?

Leah told Shawn Ryan she started at Northrop Grumman building cost models for satellites, joined a special access program, then worked for Booz Allen Hamilton at the NRO as a contractor. At the CIA she says she worked for the CFO and comptroller, justifying the agency's budget to Congress. She says she was a blue badge DIA employee for about 10 months, and that she does not owe proof to strangers online.

• Leah says she got the Northrop Grumman job through a contact she met while working at the Cheesecake Factory in college.
• Leah says her CIA budget work showed her that spending often did not match the mission described to Congress.
• Leah says critics are coordinated and that she was attacked first after a financial piece on Corey Mills.

Source: our own transcription of the episode. The full conversation is on The Shawn Ryan Show (2026-10-20). Read the whole episode summary →

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