A Georgetown University professor and former CIA analyst, Dr. John Gentry, has expressed concerns about the politicization of the intelligence community and its potential impact on the 2024 election.
He believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts have become a significant problem, leading to internal divisions and political activism within intelligence agencies.
Gentry points to instances such as the handling of the Hunter Biden laptop controversy as evidence of this politicization. (Trending: Ex-Marine Imprisoned In Russia Sends Message To Biden)
He suggests that former intelligence officers may be active in the upcoming election and highlights the influence of key figures like John Brennan and James Clapper in promoting DEI policies.
Gentry’s book, “Neutering the CIA,” aims to shed light on these issues.
CIA Director William Burns has acknowledged the challenge of maintaining non-partisan intelligence analysis in the face of political pressures.
Dr. John Gentry said, “My guess is that the the proverbial deep state within the intelligence community will reemerge because presumably a Republican candidate will again be seen as a threat to the internal policies that many intelligence people like.”
“I long have thought we are likely to again see former intelligence officers be politically active against Trump or whomever the Republican presidential candidate is next year, and I expect leaking to resume,” added Gentry.
“The activities of ‘formers’ have resumed already, a bit before I expected,” he explained.
“Asha Rangappa once worked at the FBI and also was openly anti-Trump, though as a relatively junior former, she attracted less attention than many,” said Gentry.
“I think it is worth closely monitoring these people. Many have compromised their credibility by actions such as the ‘Laptop 51’ letter,” said the author of the book, “Neutering the CIA: Why US Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences.”
“It was an effort half a century ago to get more women and minorities into the intelligence community,” continued Gentry.
“This was done under the rubric of affirmative action. It gradually became more of a policy through the Clinton administration. But it took a significant step forward, or not, depending on your perspective, when President Obama signed an executive order designed to improve diversity and inclusion in the federal workforce,” explained the analyst.
Gentry said former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper were, “very strongly supportive of Obama’s desire to transform the federal workforce, and so they began to accelerate this process and did a number of things from the standpoint of policy actions, in terms of specific recruitment efforts, for example, and they pushed their employees to be more concerned about diversity and inclusion issues and, even in Brennan’s case, to be politically active.”
“There are a lot of people who are unhappy about it because it’s politicizing the workforce, and it’s dividing the workforce among people who believe in DEI policies and those who don’t,” Gentry said.
“And even in the Obama period, the analysis director had people who were beginning to talk about, quote, ‘soft totalitarianism.’ That was a direct result of Brennan’s top-down, politically driven policies; the totalitarianism being a reminder of the Soviet Union and China and so on. Well, this has a number of effects in terms of performance and in terms of credibility,” explained the author.
“So, put all these things together, and I’m pretty confident that we’ll see a reemergence of activism,” predicted Gentry.
“My obligation, and President Biden reminds me of this frequently, is to offer the best intelligence that we can collect and analyze straight up, even when that’s inconvenient to policymakers. I spent enough time on the other side of the table to know when it’s inconvenient to, when somebody’s telling you that the big new idea is actually not so big, not so new, and not so effective,” said Burns.
“Our job is to be straight about that, whether it’s welcome downtown, at the White House, or other parts of the executive branch or not. It’s not an easy role to play, but it’s an incredibly important one. It’s one I take seriously. I know Director Haines does and others across the US intelligence community. That’s what our officers do their very best to provide,” added the the director.
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