She had not publicly named the school where she taught.

“There’s a reason Spanberger hid her work history from voters, the school was so dangerous, even Chuck Schumer called for it to be shut down,” Congressional Leadership Fund spokeswoman Courtney Alexander said in a statement. (Schumer, D-N.Y., is now the Senate minority leader.)

“By teaching at a Saudi-funded school that produced some of the world’s most dangerous terrorists, Spanberger exhibited incredibly bad judgment and Virginians deserve better.”

The school later fended off controversies including a former valedictorian charged with aiding al-Qaida and convicted of providing support to the terrorist network. Schumer in 2005 called for a probe of the school.

Spanberger taught at the school years before the controversies cited in the TV ad.

Schumer’s office released a statement from him Thursday saying that his 2005 comments were made “immediately following my earliest concerns about graduates of this school. I strongly condemn anyone using those comments about this school as a way to attack an upstanding patriot and former CIA officer Abigail Spanberger, who had left the school years before and had absolutely nothing to do with my concerns.”