Covert At The CIA

www.aim.org ^ | July 1, 2003 | Cliff Kincaid

[Tailgunner Joe]

There’s increasing speculation that CIA Director George Tenet’s job may be in jeopardy if the U.S. doesn’t find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Perhaps the CIA has been more preoccupied with other matters. The CIA web site has a section on "Diversity in the CIA" that emphasizes the agency’s involvement with ANGLE, which stands for the Agency Network for Gay and Lesbian Employees. This is "an outreach of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans-gendered employees providing internal networking support and education to the overall Agency regarding issues relating to sexual orientation and the workplace."

This year, however, there was no special event at the agency honoring Gay Pride Month. A CIA spokesman told us that the ANGLE group did not organize an event this year because it has been focusing on internal policies at the CIA that affect them. June 12 was celebrated by the group last year, and in 2000 it held an event featuring Congressman Barney Frank, who was reprimanded by the House years ago for his association with a gay prostitute.

Tenet has a statement on the CIA web site that declares, "I regard our diversity as a powerful tool that can help us meet the intelligence challenges of the coming century." Tenet has made advancing diversity an important part of his Strategic Direction planning. He is determined to increase the CIA’s diversity and "to use the many talents of the men and women who are already with us to optimum advantage."

That sounds rather strange in light of the fact that "diversity" is the concept that helped bring on the Jayson Blair scandal at the New York Times. When the Times put too much emphasis on diversity, its journalistic product suffered. Perhaps the CIA and other government agencies have suffered in their missions by emphasizing diversity over doing the jobs they are assigned to do, such as protecting the American people from terrorism and finding weapons of mass destruction.

Promoting diversity at the CIA has meant giving rights to the "transgendered." On that note, the Cinemax Cable channel celebrated Gay Pride Month by airing "No Dumb Questions," a film about "transgender pride" that features daughters ages 6, 9 and 11 learning why and how their Uncle Bill is becoming Aunt Barbara. Rep. Porter J. Goss, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a CIA operative in the 1960s, has said that he is ambivalent about openly homosexual intelligence officers. Goss said, "I'm not going to make a moral judgment whether it's a good thing or a bad thing."

But the transgender aspect to "gay pride" puts this whole push for diversity at the CIA into an even more ludicrous light. Can anybody imagine a man dressed like a woman making an effective CIA agent? This is all possible today because President Bill Clinton signed an executive order in August 1995 prohibiting the denial of security clearances "solely on the basis of the sexual orientation of the employee." Hillary Clinton’s new book is full of references to how wonderful diversity is. The media – and George Tenet -- agree with her.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Sack the Clintonista Tenet!

[Enterprise]

"Rep. Porter J. Goss, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a CIA operative in the 1960s, has said that he is ambivalent about openly homosexual intelligence officers. Goss said, "I'm not going to make a moral judgment whether it's a good thing or a bad thing."

Oh, that's ok. The Catholic Church wasn't ambivalent about openly homosexual priests and look at all the good that came from that!

[thinktwice]

Our nation needs excellence from male and female employees, and sexually challenged individuals should not be involved in sensitive national matters.

[Loyalist]

Goss said, "I'm not going to make a moral judgment whether it's a good thing or a bad thing."

Neither did MI5 and the British Foreign Office, to their everlasting embarrassment.

[Cicero]

Let's not be silly. There is some homosexuality in the Catholic Church, as there is everywhere else these days, but homosexuality is not officially supported and approved by the Catholic Church. Only by sinners and dissenters.

It is evidently officially supported by the governing authorities in the CIA, however.

This is not the only reason to remove Tenet, either. He has been a clintonoid mole from the very first.

[shaggy eel]

ANGLE, which stands for the Agency Network for Gay and Lesbian Employees. This is "an outreach of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans-gendered employees providing internal networking support and education to the overall Agency regarding issues relating to sexual orientation and the workplace."

,,, a celebration of asset management.

[Enterprise]

I did NOT write that homosexuality was openly supported by the Catholic Church.

[Normal4me]

"Sexually challenged"?

And being homosexual has what to do with a persons ability gathering intelligence? Guess what, we have gay people in EVERY profession including the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and other places. Because you don't approve of their private lifestyle, doesn't mean they are handicapped.

[gcruse]

Yes, I'm sure PR in the pursuit of diversity is why
no WMDs have been found yet. I thought DUers came
up with pathetic garbage, but this is so puerile a
kind of grandeur creeps into it.

[fiftymegaton]

I enjoy reading about the CIA and enjoy the whole idea of what the CIA is capable of operationally but this story is extremely disheartening to me. Despicable IMO.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Maybe if our intelligence community was doing it's job instead of knitting diversity quilts and taking brainwashing sessions on sodomy sensitivity, then we wouldn't be experiencing the unpleasant consequences of this massive intelligence failure.

[FreedomCalls]

And being homosexual has what to do with a persons ability gathering intelligence?

A lot. If they are assigned to the Office of Diversity Management with a staff of 10 planning "Gay Pride Month", that is 11 people who are NOT gathering intelligence.

[D. Brian Carter]

R U F'n K M???!!!???

[gcruse]

Yeah, I'm sure that was the cause of the failure.
You bet.

[gcruse]

While you're at it, let's hear it for Ashcroft. In the weeks FOLLOWING 9/11, he kept FBI agents in New Orleans investigating whore houses. Then there's the hassling of medical marujuana users in states where it is legal. How did any of that help in the war on terrorism?

[takenoprisoner]

The sooner the legacy of the straight white man is ancient history and long forgotten, the better the world will be.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Who knows? We can't kick out jihadists from our military because that wouldn't be PC. We can't let the public know the beltway sniper is black because that might lead to racial profiling. We can't fire a CIA agent who says he won't spy on Muslims because that's his religion.

With this kind of PC brain death pervading every facet of our federal government, who knows how many CIA agents have been compromised or turned against us because of their sexual urges and their loyalty to a perverse and subversive political agenda?

[Tailgunner Joe]

Obviosly you've never heard of Narco-terrorism.

Drugs and Terror: Understanding the Link and the Impact on America

[gcruse]

Hopefully, the stigmatizing is lifting, and sexual preference won't be a blackmailable item much longer. At any rate, we want the best people in the best positions to get the job done. What they do when they go to bed at night shouldn't enter into it.

[gcruse]

So legalize the drugs and the terrorism will go away.