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Obama to NatSec Agencies: Increase Diversity, Train on 'Implicit or Unconscious Bias'
pjmedia.com ^ | 10/5/16 | Bridget Johnson

Posted on 10/05/2016 10:16:24 AM PDT by ColdOne

WASHINGTON -- President Obama issued a memo to heads of government agencies today on increasing diversity in the national security workforce to make the diplomacy, development, defense, intelligence, law enforcement, and homeland security complex "more effective at problem solving than homogeneous groups."

The national security workforce in the federal government consists of more than 3 million workers from agencies such as the Intelligence Community, USAID, Treasury Department, State Department, Justice Department, and the Department of Homeland Security.

Obama said data collected on the departments "indicate that agencies in this workforce are less diverse on average than the rest of the federal government," and in 2015 only the State Department USAID Civil Services "were more diverse in terms of gender, race, and ethnicity than the federal workforce as a whole."

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To: Grampa Dave

THIS is why so many program are black: To get away from politics.


21 posted on 10/05/2016 11:52:43 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad

“THIS is why so many program are black: To get away from politics.”

CodeToad doesn’t mean skin color re black programs.


22 posted on 10/05/2016 11:55:00 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act! George Orwell.)
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To: Squantos

Forgot to ping you on what you know all ready.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3476985/posts?page=19#19


23 posted on 10/05/2016 11:58:50 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act! George Orwell.)
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To: ColdOne

If you have multiple felonies, you will probably not get a security clearance. Plus you have to have the right skill sets. If you majored in women, black, gay, glbt studies you probably won’t make it past the circular file.


24 posted on 10/05/2016 12:01:48 PM PDT by Bruce Kurtz
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To: Grampa Dave

Due to the political nature of blacks, I bet there are much fewer now in black programs than there used to be.


25 posted on 10/05/2016 12:05:17 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Bruce Kurtz

“Plus you have to have the right skill sets. If you majored in women, black, gay, glbt studies you probably won’t make it past the circular file.”

That’s the way it used to be but not anymore. I was at a military service parade a few years ago sitting with a few retired guys that were high ranking within the intelligence community, and one of them said, “I bet we couldn’t get the security clearances anymore.”

I had an investigator asked me, “What is your views on gay and lesbians having access to the military?” When I said it was none of anyone’s business, she replied is was a formal question the agency required to be answered.


26 posted on 10/05/2016 12:08:48 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad

“Due to the political nature of blacks, I bet there are much fewer now in black programs than there used to be.”

That enigma will drive some of FR’s readers up a snowflake tree.


27 posted on 10/05/2016 12:10:40 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act! George Orwell.)
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To: CodeToad

I had an investigator asked me, “What is your views on gay and lesbians having access to the military?”

That is sick, I don’t think I would qualify for a clearance today either.


28 posted on 10/05/2016 12:20:40 PM PDT by Bruce Kurtz
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To: ColdOne

In other words, hire more Muslims and transsexuals and be sure to cater to their needs despite their violent and bizarre dispositions.


29 posted on 10/05/2016 2:17:58 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Pecos

True.


30 posted on 10/05/2016 3:37:20 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: CodeToad

Unreal. That BS is most likely more important than a full BI. I recall when a TS required a full investigation of every place one lived to include interviewing neighbors.


31 posted on 10/05/2016 3:43:42 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: Grampa Dave; Lurker; glock rocks

Goobermint agencies really have tied to force this crap on lots of old door kickers who love to attend such courses. When we were seated in class they told us no question was a bad question ..... I asked why white people were not allowed to teach the diversity training ? I’ve not been made to go back to that class in 22 years .....


32 posted on 10/05/2016 4:14:28 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Lumper20

TS with CNWDI still does .... 5 year update was just completed.


33 posted on 10/05/2016 4:16:18 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: CodeToad

My recent 5 year update did’nt ask me such ..... your investigator must have been gay and just threw that in to mess with ya.....:o)


34 posted on 10/05/2016 4:19:15 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Squantos

She is a flaming liberal. Knew her 30 years ago. Last 702 type.


35 posted on 10/05/2016 4:25:17 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad

WAF ? remember that AFSC well..... I was 47490 EOD 22 years. My wife was a 702 but went into OSI.... Now doing stuff for DOE/NNSA for past 23 years. Retiring for good in December......DONE with goobermint BS for GOOD.

Stay safe !


36 posted on 10/05/2016 4:31:40 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Squantos

Yep. That!

I guess they figured we were diversified enough. Haven’t been lectured to since. Idiots.


37 posted on 10/05/2016 8:30:08 PM PDT by glock rocks (Black Labs Matter)
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To: rovenstinez

Or weed out whitey.


38 posted on 10/05/2016 9:27:20 PM PDT by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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