WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama paid tribute to the seven CIA employees killed in one of the worst attacks in the history of the intelligence agency, calling them patriots who “served in the shadows and took pride in it” before paying the highest cost for freedom.
The White House released a transcript of Obama’s remarks from Friday’s memorial service at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. More than 1,000 agency workers attended, as did families of those killed in the suicide blast in Afghanistan on Dec. 30.
“To their colleagues and all who served with them — those here today, those still recovering, those watching around the world — I say: Let their sacrifice be a summons,” Obama said, “to carry on their work, to complete this mission, to win this war and to keep our country safe.” The Associated Press
