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| Internal CIA documents, presentation show effort to mandate DEI at the center of the intel agency |
| 2024-11-03 |
| [JustTheNews] The CIA’s chief diversity officer earlier this year described his department’s efforts to ingrain DEI across the agency in hiring decisions and trainings. newly revised Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEI) strategy for the Central Intelligence Agency promises to put diversity at the center of promotion decisions and attempt to solidify programs to withstand changing administrations, according to internal documents and a public presentation by senior agency diversity official. “We see it as the core of our mission,” CIA’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Jerry Laurienti, said of DEI in a presentation earlier this year. He delivered his remarks to the biannual business meeting of the Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (DACODAI) in May. Fred Fleitz, a former CIA agent and national security official in the Trump Administration, told Just the News that DEI initiatives are “dug in quite deep” at the agency and warns they are detrimental to the execution of the mission. “And this DEI philosophy is dug in quite deep within our government, including at the Central Intelligence Agency. They're not promoting or hiring, giving bonuses based on merit. They're using quotas. They're using DEI to promote political outcomes,” Fleitz told the “John Solomon Reports” podcast. Laurienti described the presentation as showing how DEI is used as a key filter for candidates for promotion to leadership positions within the intelligence agency and that DEI training is integrated at all levels of leadership, according to the recording of his presentation, meeting minutes, and a CIA slide deck reviewed by Just the News. The recording of the live presentation was posted to video streaming site Rumble. The content matches with published CIA documents and the meeting minutes from the presentation. “Right now we already have required training for leaders at different levels,” Laurienti said. Also, “when you go into a promotion panel for a leadership and particularly uh for the senior leadership… those panels include our head of talent and then the head of each directorate and then myself.” PERFORMANCE, CORPORATE MINDSET, AND DEI The promotion panel assesses each candidate under three criteria, Laurienti said: mission performance, corporate mindset, and DEI. “And on that third one, they have to show uh, not just that they have been contributing corporately, but rather the impact of their efforts on DEIA,” he said. According to Laurienti, this means that “they’re creating an equitable inclusive environment within their teams for mission performance all day every day.” “I do not want to hear that it's something that they did after work or that they just do corporately that I want to hear that it's something that they're doing all day every day so that each person in their unit is able to come to work with this on the job, not focused on trying to fit in,” he added. He also confirmed that DEI has impacted promotions at the agency. “I can tell you in the last two years of panels, we’ve lifted people up and we’ve pushed people down based on those meetings.” The CIA workforce also has an eye towards making the DEI programs permanent regardless of which administration occupies the White House. On one slide from Laurienti’s presentation lists conclusions his office drew from workforce feedback about the agency’s DEI programs. One conclusion is that the workforce wants to see programs that endure despite changes in leadership at the White House, even though the President directly controls all executive branch agencies under the Constitution. “Not be easily shaken or crumbled due to executive administration changes,” the slide reads. The agency’s workforce also wants DEI programs to “Help create a sense of psychological safety for all” and “Move past perceived ‘performative’ actions.” The 2024-2027 CIA Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Strategy highlights the importance of cementing DEI criteria in hiring and promotion panels, corporate communications, and training courses. “When equity and inclusion are incorporated into processes and procedures, CIA is better enabled to create and sustain a workplace where all officers can safely contribute to mission success,” the strategy reads. |
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| #1 "The CIA workforce also has an eye towards making the DEI programs permanent regardless of which administration occupies the White House." Kennedy and McCone proved that the CIA could be stopped in its tracks. Then, of course, Kennedy was assassinated. The purge could have continued its course, but Lyndon Johnson was a dedicated corrupticrat. |
| Posted by: Albert Pelosi3459 2024-11-03 14:13 |