it's fun to watch zionist warmongers whine. almost as much fun as watching them take their last breath.
On Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 1:15:08 PM UTC-6, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > This has been a problem since Jimmy Carter…just getting worse. > > > > B > > > > > http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-obama-cia-is-putting-diversity-above-national-security?f=must_reads > > > The Obama CIA Is Putting Diversity above National Security > > by FRED FLEITZ > <http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/detail/fred-fleitz> > February 23, 2016 > > [image: Description: > http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20121010_brennan_obama_rect-460x307.jpg] > > America's intelligence agencies have a serious and difficult mission: > protecting our national security from a world of diverse and changing > threats. These include nuclear, military, terrorist, and economic threats > from nation-states and non-state actors. China is a rapidly growing > intelligence, military, and cyber threat. Russia has exploited a power > vacuum in the Middle East caused by President Obama's failure to exercise > leadership in the region. ISIS, which did not exist in 2009, is now a > global threat and could be planning new terrorist attacks with chemical > weapons and dirty bombs. > > Protecting our nation from such threats requires extremely competent and > capable individuals to conduct intelligence operations and write analysis > in challenging security and legal environments. This means the intelligence > profession needs officers who will speak truth to power, obey the law, and > resist pressure to politicize analysis. > > CIA Director John Brennan apparently believes otherwise and that advancing > President Obama's political and social agendas should be an important part > of the CIA's mission. This may be why Brennan recently announced his > "Diversity > and Inclusion Strategy (2016-2019) > <https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/Diversity_Inclusion_Strategy_2016_to_2019.pdf>" > > to make the CIA more diverse and politically correct. Brennan says 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 has mandated "diversity and inclusion performance objectives for > all CIA managers and supervisors and ultimately [for] the entire > workforce," so that CIA personnel must weigh diversity and gender figures > in making key assignments and senior-level promotions. Brennan's plan also > includes agency-wide "unconscious bias" training. > > I support a fair and equitable workplace at CIA without any form of > unlawful discrimination. But this as a dangerous development because > Brennan is creating diversity quotas for hiring and promotions instead of > promoting a work environment that prioritizes competence and achievement. > > Brennan is doing this in response to President Obama's efforts to create a > more diverse federal work force. While there may be merit in this for many > U.S. government jobs, hiring and promoting intelligence officers based on > diversity quotas will not, as Brennan claims, better enable CIA to > safeguard our national security. The CIA's mission is too serious to be > distracted by Obama's social-engineering efforts meant to redress real and > perceived injustices in our society. > > It is not unjust to hire a white male with a Ph.D. from Harvard and a > background in nuclear science to analyze the Iranian nuclear program over > someone with weaker credentials who is a member of a racial or gender > minority. Altering the rules so the latter candidate will win a competition > for such a job is not in our national interest. Adding such considerations > to CIA promotion rules will further complicate the agency's management, > which is already suffering from politicization and political correctness. > This is why in the CIA Directorate of Intelligence, where I worked for 19 > years, many highly qualified officers refuse to apply for management jobs - > or they last in them for only a few years before returning to analyst > positions. > > As a former CIA officer, I believe one of the worst signs of how backward > the agency's personnel system has become under Director Brennan is that his > diversity plan lists Maja Lehnus as the agency's new "Chief Diversity and > Inclusion Officer." I was stunned when I read this. Ms. Lehnus served as > director of the CIA Weapons Intelligence and Nonproliferation Center and > the director of the National Intelligence Counterproliferation Center > (NCTC). According to the NCTC website, Lehnus worked for 20 years in a wide > range of CIA technical and management positions on counterproliferation and > weapons of mass destruction. > > At a time of growing WMD threats from North Korea, Iran, Russia, China, > and ISIS, why is this brilliant WMD expert being moved from such a critical > intelligence mission to a position overseeing diversity quotas? > > There are two discernible reasons for this. > > First, this is just the latest evidence that the Obama administration is > not serious about protecting U.S. national security. We know this already, > given its "leading from behind" and "strategic patience" approaches to > foreign policy and constant leaks of sensitive intelligence to advance > their political agenda. It therefore is not surprising that Obama would > make diversity and political correctness at the CIA a higher priority than > improving its analysis and operations. The fact that the administration > would move one of the agency's leading WMD experts from a senior job in her > area of expertise to heading Brennan's ludicrous diversity program is a > clear sign of the CIA's distorted priorities. > > Second, there are many signs that the work of the CIA and other > intelligence agencies has been thoroughly politicized by the Obama > administration. CIA Director Brennan has been criticized for doctoring > White House talking points on the 2011 terrorist attack on the Benghazi > consulate to favor the Obama administration misrepresentation of this > attack. Brennan also has straddled the fence on the legality of the CIA's > enhanced-interrogation program, probably due to pressure from the White > House and Senate Democrats. > > In recent years, we've also seen strong evidence that the White House has > exerted political pressure to conform intelligence analysis to meet its > agenda. More than 50 U.S. intelligence analysts working with the U.S. > Central Command filed complaints with the Pentagon inspector general last > year, claiming that their analyses were manipulated by senior officials to > downplay the threat from ISIS and the al-Nusra Front (the al-Qaeda branch > in Syria). I witnessed similar politicization of analysis at CIA last > August when I attended an unclassified briefing by a senior CIA WMD analyst > on the nuclear deal with Iran; the official's assessment sounded as if it > had been directly drawn from White House talking points > <http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424759/about-those-50-centcom-whistleblowers-where-are-all-others-fred-fleitz> > . > > The United States urgently needs intelligence agencies that are effective > and innovative, and that will speak truth to power. While many of the U.S. > intelligence community's problems predate this administration, they have > gotten much worse since 2009. It is vital that the next president name > strong and decisive leaders to top intelligence posts. Our next > commander-in-chief must stand by their efforts to conduct major reforms > that will reverse the nonsensical initiative of the Obama years and improve > the ability of America's intelligence agencies to counter the > national-security threats facing our nation. > > These reforms should promote fair hiring and promotion practices but > should not undermine the CIA's effectiveness with politically correct > schemes that will only lower standards and create quotas. 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