CIA’s ‘woke’ video — here’s how we get liberal leaning agency back on track

But the worst distortion of the CIA’s mission began under Director John Brennan when he implemented his Diversity and Inclusion Strategy in 2016 to make the CIA more diverse and politically correct. Brennan said in the introduction to this strategy:

Diversity at CIA is defined as the wide range of life experiences and backgrounds needed to ensure multiple perspectives that enable us to safeguard US national security. It encompasses the collection of individual attributes that together help Agencies pursue organizational objectives efficiently and effectively. These include but are not limited to characteristics such as national origin, language, race, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic status, veteran’s status and family structures.

Brennan mandated “diversity and inclusion performance objectives for all CIA managers and supervisors and ultimately [for] the entire workforce.” This required CIA personnel to weigh diversity and gender figures in making key assignments and senior-level promotions. Brennan’s plan also includes agency-wide “unconscious bias” training.

CIA officers perform sensitive work with high level security clearances. Some of this work is dangerous. The Agency was not the place for Brennan to be implementing President Obama’s social engineering efforts with hiring and promotion quotas.

Brennan got away with this because the CIA had drifted so far to the left after Republican presidents had repeatedly failed to clean house to return it its national security mission.

The CIA recruitment video reflects how the Trump administration was unable to clean up the CIA in Trump’s first term.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo had little chance to clean house at CIA since he was there just over a year before President Trump nominated him to be Secretary of State.

Pompeo’s successor Gina Haspel, a career CIA officer, did not openly oppose President Trump’s policies but oversaw and encouraged the Agency’s leftward movement.

She did nothing to curb the stream of leaks to the press from intelligence officers to undermine the Trump presidency. Haspel also refused to cooperate with repeated orders from the president to bring classified documents on the now-debunked Trump campaign Russia collusion hoax to the White House. Haspel should have been fired for this insubordination.

The recruitment video is part of a CIA YouTube video series called “The Humans of CIA” that began under Haspel’s directorship. President Trump planned to fire Haspel if he had been reelected and would have named a new director to enact major reforms.

This recruitment video is a warning sign of how severe liberal ideology is rotting the mission of a crucial intelligence agency with a multibillion-dollar budget. Instead of performing its national security mission, the Agency’s leftist leadership and the Biden administration plan to continue to use it to conduct social engineering and to politicize intelligence against the administration’s political adversaries.

The next Republican president, who I hope takes office in January 2025, will have an enormous mess on his or her hands at the CIA and other national security organizations due to leftwing woke-ism running amok in them during the Biden administration.

For the good of our national security, the next Republican president has to do better filling the top positions of these crucial organizations by nominating principled and experienced managers from outside government with the backbone to enact major organizational changes to streamline and depoliticize them – and to endure the resulting fierce blowback they will encounter from taking such action from the press and congressional Democrats. This must include new standards for hiring and promotions and firing incompetent staff who were hired solely for the sake of political correctness.

CIA is engaged in deadly serious business to protect our freedom and security.  There is no room at CIA for woke, politically correct personnel schemes.