A plan to build a casino in Tysons poses a needless threat to national security, according to a letter signed by 109 former senior members of the defense industry and intelligence community, as well former government officials and members of Congress.
“We raise our acute concern about a possible casino at Tysons,” the letter says. “Within a ten-minute drive or less to such an establishment is a population of over 20,000 federal employees working at our most sensitive national security organizations: the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Counterterrorism Center, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.”
In addition, the casino that Comstock Holding Companies has said it wants to build along Metro’s Silver Line in Tysons would be in close proximity to vital defense and intelligence contractors.
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