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Obama Memo Demands that US Security Agencies Become "More Diverse"
Townhall.com ^ | October 10, 2016 | Justin Holcomb

Posted on 10/10/2016 11:51:42 AM PDT by jazusamo

Obama Memo Demands that US Security Agencies Become "More Diverse"

In an attempt to "promote diversity and inclusion in the national security workforce," Barack Obama sent out a White House memorandum last week urging government agencies to start hiring minorities.

“Our greatest asset in protecting the homeland and advancing our interests abroad is the talent and diversity of our national security workforce,” Obama said. “As the United States becomes more diverse and the challenges we face more complex, we must continue to invest in policies to recruit, retain and develop the best and brightest from all segments of our population,” he added.

The White House released the Obama administration's definition of diverse, which includes individuals with various ethnic, religious or sexual backgrounds.

“Diversity has always been one of the nation’s greatest strengths, and it is no different for the federal workforce, which has a responsibility as the nation’s largest employer to lead by example and to reflect the population that we serve,” it says. “Inclusion has been key to ensuring that the investments we make to develop our workforce result in a more effective and skilled government for the American people."

The memo went on to ridicule the low levels of minorities currently in the national security force.

"In broad comparison with the wider Federal Government, the federal workforce dedicated to our national security and foreign policy is – on average – less diverse, including at the highest levels."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: diversity; federaljobs; nationalinsecurity; nationalsecurity; obama; securityagencies
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To: jazusamo

Maybe the CIA can give Obama Russian lessons and then we can parachute drop him into Russia.


21 posted on 10/10/2016 12:13:27 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: jazusamo

The intelligence agencies are full of people from affluent families because rich kids are more likely to benefit from learning a foreign language.


22 posted on 10/10/2016 12:16:14 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: thoughtomator

February 01, 2016, 04:29 pm
Poll: 25 percent of federal employees would quit under President Trump
The Hill


23 posted on 10/10/2016 12:25:00 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (when the MSM wants your opinion, they will give it to you Leary is this)
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To: jazusamo

Obama is not going away quietly.

What I fear i between the time Trump is elected and he is sworn in that Obama will push to have his nominee for the Supreme Court confirm by Congress and the RINOs will do it.


24 posted on 10/10/2016 12:25:21 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
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To: jazusamo
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25 posted on 10/10/2016 12:26:36 PM PDT by ETL (TRUMP-PENCE 2016!!!)
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To: jazusamo

0bama is doing his best in his last few months to make the country weaker. “

Our country will never be weaker than on BO’s last day. If I were a thinking strategist, I would brace for an attack.


26 posted on 10/10/2016 12:27:44 PM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: stocksthatgoup
Poll: 25 percent of federal employees would quit under President Trump

Well that should just about wrap it up for Trump.

27 posted on 10/10/2016 12:28:23 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: jazusamo


28 posted on 10/10/2016 12:30:14 PM PDT by ETL (TRUMP-PENCE 2016!!!)
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To: stocksthatgoup
Poll: 25 percent of federal employees would quit under President Trump

Lol, that'll happen the same day all the celebs who vowed to move out of the US actually do it. No way will federal employees leave their cushy jobs with good pay and max benefits.

29 posted on 10/10/2016 12:34:35 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Brian Griffin
Maybe the CIA can give Obama Russian lessons and then we can parachute drop him into Russia.

Obama's mother reportedly met his father in a Russian language class.

And his mentor growing up in Hawaii, Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis, who he referred to as "Uncle Frank" in his boy 'Dreams', was a die-hard supporter of the Soviet Union. Even poems glorifying the "Red Army"...

Barack Obama's Marxist Mentor

[Frank Marshall Davis]
By Trevor Loudon, NewZeal.Blogspot.com, March 29, 2007
https://web.archive.org/web/20080227233558/http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2007/03/barack-obamas-marxist-mentor.html
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Barack Obama, from Dreams from My Father, Three Rivers Press, New York, Revised Edition, 2004, ISBN 1-4000-8277-3, p. 76-7:
"But by the time I met Frank [Frank Marshall Davis] he must have been pushing eighty, with a big, dewlapped face and an ill-kempt gray Afro that made him look like an old, shaggy-maned lion. He would read us his poetry whenever we stopped by his house, sharing whiskey with Gramps out of an emptied jelly jar."
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Frank Marshall Davis

From Accuracy In Media | AIM.ORG

Obama's Red Mentor Praised Red Army
AIM Report | By Cliff Kincaid | April 30, 2008

Barack Obama's childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA (CPUSA), wrote a poem dedicated to the Soviet Red Army. "Smash on, victory-eating Red Army," he declared. He also wrote poems attacking traditional Christianity and the work of Christian missionaries.

The "Red Army" poem goes beyond hoping for the communists to beat the Nazis in World War II and hails the Soviet revolution. It says:

Show the marveling multitudes
Americans, British, all your allied brothers
How strong you are
How great you are
How your young tree of new unity
Planted twenty-five years ago
Bears today the golden fruit of victory!

http://www.aim.org/aim-report/obamas-red-mentor-praised-red-army/
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Obama's Communist Mentor
AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | February 18, 2008

excerpt...

"through Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his 'poetry' and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his book, Dreams From My Father, refers to him repeatedly as just 'Frank.'

The reason is apparent: Davis was a known communist who belonged to a party subservient to the Soviet Union. In fact, the 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii identified him as a CPUSA member. What's more, anti-communist congressional committees, including the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), accused Davis of involvement in several communist-front organizations."

Frank Chapman, a CPUSA supporter, has written a letter to the party newspaper hailing the Illinois senator's victory in the Iowa caucuses:

" Obama's victory was more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle. Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary 'mole,' not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through."

-People's Weekly World (PWW), official newspaper of the Communist Party, USA:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080319135307/http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/12302/1/405

In addition to the linked AIM article, you can also find reference to it here:
http://www.wnd.com/2008/11/79877/

AIM article: Obama’s Communist Mentor
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/

30 posted on 10/10/2016 12:35:35 PM PDT by ETL (TRUMP-PENCE 2016!!!)
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To: Brian Griffin

Obama Espoused Radical [Communist revolutionary] Views in College

Steve Malzberg - WOR News Talk Radio 710 ^ | February 12, 2010 | Ronald Kessler

Dr. John C. Drew, a grant writing consultant in Laguna Niguel, Calif., tells Newsmax he met Obama in 1980 when Obama was a sophomore at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Drew had just graduated from Occidental and was attending graduate school at Cornell University.

During Christmas break, Drew says he was at Grauman-Boss’ home in Palo Alto when Obama came over with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, his roommate from Pakistan.

“Barack [Obama] and Hasan showed up at the house in a BMW, and then we went to a restaurant together,” Drew says. “We had a nice meal, and then we came back to the house and smoked cigarettes and drank and argued politics.”

For the next several hours, they discussed Marxism.

He [Obama] was arguing a straightforward Marxist-Leninist class-struggle point of view, which anticipated that there would be a revolution of the working class, led by revolutionaries, who would overthrow the capitalist system and institute a new socialist government that would redistribute the wealth,” says Drew, who says he himself was then a Marxist.

The idea was basically that wealthy people were exploiting others,” Drew says. “That this was the secret of their wealth, that they weren’t paying others enough for their work, and they were using and taking advantage of other people. He was convinced that a revolution would take place, and it would be a good thing.”

Drew concluded that Obama thought of himself as “part of an intelligent, radical vanguard that was leading the way towards this revolution and towards this new society.” ..."

Referring to Obama’s quote from “Dreams of My Father” that he associated with Marxist professors, Drew says, “What he’s not saying is that he was in 100 percent total agreement with those Marxist professors. When you understand that, Obama’s later associations and policies make more sense, including why he was taken in by Rev. Wright’s ideology.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20100214061745/http://www.wor710.com/pages/6350883

31 posted on 10/10/2016 12:36:09 PM PDT by ETL (TRUMP-PENCE 2016!!!)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Sadly you may well be right. We can bet he’ll being throwing a fit to get the Senate to confirm.


32 posted on 10/10/2016 12:39:27 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jazusamo

Security under the Democrats:
Statements from Gary Aldrich Book:
The Clinton Whte House
Unlimited Access.
Back in Bill Clinton Presidency thet refused to take care of U.S. Classified Materials. They even allowed people without Security Clearances to handle and see our classified materal. A lot of Clinton’s staff members could not attain a Security Clearance and the Clinton’s wilfully allowed the law to be broken. Here are some excerts from Retired F.B.I Agent Gary Aldrich’s book about his time and what was seen in the White House under The Clinton’s.
Aldrich descibed how a Security System that had been perfected by the 6 previous presidences had been dismantled by the Clinton’s. (Adjustable Ethics)
Without Ethical men and women in government ,the pomp and circumstance is a sham and power is merely abused. (x)
The Clinton’s,their friends, and their political agenda I concluded was at odds with the Constitution. (page 3) I believe the Congress knew more about what was going own than I did and with few exceptions did nothing about it. No one in the Media even reported what was seen every day.(3)
Key people in the administration decided that security procedutes were not important and taking a so what attitude. (9)
Hillary Clinton was screaming at her husband in what was described as “uncontrolled and unbridled fury”. (11)
(People) used words with double meanings.(To cover tracks-me)
Larsen told me he resigned because Watkins wanted him to create false numbers to conform with Clintons promise 25% cut in staff.(24) Watkins see page (28-29)
The GAO investigative report dated 9/9/1993 showed that some of Clintons staffers doubled dipped.) (24) Some 25 were drawing two paychecks.
More than 200 Clinton White House Staffers viewed Classified material and they had no legal right to do it or be there.(25) 1st excert


33 posted on 10/10/2016 12:46:13 PM PDT by Herman Ball
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To: Gen.Blather
Don't forget about Marketing, Training and the junior-level Executive Suite.

That's where the corps I've worked for have hidden people.

Places that matter - engineering, sales, the C-Suite - have had people who were capable of making decisions and/or working their butts off. Strangely enough, the "diverstity" in these spots is generally pretty good. No place to hide, likely.

The most pleasant places I've worked were privately held companies, where no one gave a s*** about diversity. Great teams there, all of them. And - interestingly - fairly diverse. Amazing what people can accomplish when they're not weighed down with a lot of baggage.

34 posted on 10/10/2016 1:06:17 PM PDT by wbill
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To: jazusamo

We need to make Silicon Valley more diverse, particularly on their boards of directors.


35 posted on 10/10/2016 1:06:52 PM PDT by Thud
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To: jazusamo

What about Jeopardy champs?


36 posted on 10/10/2016 1:10:15 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: stocksthatgoup

yeah I call BS on them... they’re not letting go of that federal teat no way no how


37 posted on 10/10/2016 1:18:12 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: SERKIT

You beat me to it!


38 posted on 10/10/2016 1:37:35 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: jazusamo

His entire secret service detail should be affirmative action hires...ditto with his family


39 posted on 10/10/2016 1:41:08 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: silverleaf

I couldn’t agree more.


40 posted on 10/10/2016 2:05:15 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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