DEI hires ‘damaged’ CIA, other intelligence agencies, former analyst charges:
Current and former agency officials say diversity programs produce poor analysts and spies
Federal government diversity policies that favor sexual identity groups, ethnic minorities and women have damaged the effectiveness of the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies and are undermining national security, according to a critical new book by a former CIA analyst.
Diversity, equity and inclusion policies were aggressively imposed during the Obama administration and revived and advanced under President Biden. Contrary to claims of senior U.S. intelligence leaders, DEI has not improved agency performance, said author John A. Gentry, who spent 12 years as a CIA analyst.
The book describes James R. Clapper, the Obama administration’s director of national intelligence, as an overtly partisan leader. Mr. Clapper said demographic diversity improves the operation of intelligence agencies, and current DNI Avril Haines holds similar views, Mr. Gentry said.
“The book documents the extensive damage that DEI policies of the Obama and Biden administrations have done to U.S. intelligence, and it speculates about the resultant damage to national security,” Mr. Gentry said.
The book also highlights what Mr. Gentry calls the politicization of U.S. intelligence since 2009.
Mr. Gentry said he debunked Mr. Clapper’s claims through academic analysis of available information in 2021. “There is not a shred of evidence that DEI policies improve the operational performance of the agencies,” he said.
He said DEI policies were not meant to address fairness or social justice issues.
“They were enacted for Marxian ideological reasons with the goal of fundamentally and permanently changing the organizational cultures of the agencies and, in the Biden years, the U.S. government as a whole,” Mr. Gentry said in an interview.
Mr. Gentry said he was “canceled” as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University for his opposition to DEI.
He said senior intelligence officials rationalized DEI policies under Mr. Biden as motivated by politics rather than performance.
His book, “Diversity Dysfunction: The DEI Threat to National Security Intelligence,” is a harsh critique of the intelligence community’s aggressive program to favor Black, LGBTQ and female intelligence officials at the expense of White men, viewed as “toxic” under DEI nostrums. It was published in October.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA declined to comment. A CIA spokesman referred questions to Director William J. Burns’ comments supporting diversity and inclusion efforts at the CIA.
Mr. Burns told Congress in March that the agency was progressing toward a more diverse workforce. He said it was “not just the right thing to do for us as Americans, it’s the smart thing.”
DEI policies were introduced during the Clinton administration to boost minority representation in the nation’s intelligence community but were greatly accelerated during the Obama and Biden administrations.
“The damage done to the [intelligence community] by the Obama and Biden administrations has been significant” across 18 government agencies, Mr. Gentry said.
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Harsh critique charges ‘Marxian’ DEI policies wrecked U.S. intelligence agencies:
From Day One, the Biden Administration, continuing policy initiated in the Obama years, ordered every U.S. government entity to make diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) a top priority in the hiring of personnel.
That “Marxian” DEI focus produced poor spies and analysts that damaged effectiveness of the CIA and other American intelligence agencies and is undermining national security, according to a new book by a former CIA analyst.
The book, “Diversity Dysfunction: The DEI Threat to National Security Intelligence,” documents “the extensive damage that DEI policies of the Obama and Biden administrations have done to U.S. intelligence, and it speculates about the resultant damage to national security,” said author John A. Gentry, who spent 12 years as an analyst with the CIA.
For his opposition to DEI, Gentry said he was “canceled” as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.
DEI policies, Gentry said, were not put in place to address fairness or social justice issues but were imposed based on ideological reasons.
“They were enacted for Marxian ideological reasons with the goal of fundamentally and permanently changing the organizational cultures of the agencies and, in the Biden years, the U.S. government as a whole,” Gentry said in a Washington Times interview with security correspondent Bill Gertz.
Gentry describes DEI in the book as an ideology-based political agenda with philosophical roots in neo-Marxist critical theory developed in the 1920s at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. --->READ MORE HERE
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