Posted on 08/30/2024 10:12:31 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Politicization of intelligence at the CIA reached new levels of activism under President Biden, according to an academic analysis of recent political influence within the agency.
John A. Gentry, a former CIA analyst who has written extensively on the topic, stated in a recent journal article that the problem accelerated during the Trump administration when current and former intelligence officials worked to undermine Mr. Trump and his presidency through leaks and public statements.
Mr. Gentry compared current politicization at the CIA to three past periods: the debate over the Vietnam War, the Reagan administration in the 1980s and the George W. Bush administration in 2003 and 2004.
“In summary, the recent wave was much larger, lasted longer, and differed qualitatively in important ways from earlier episodes,” Mr. Gentry wrote in the current issue of the journal Comparative Strategy. “The overt activism of the Trump years receded soon after President Biden, … but the re-engineered CIA culture remains untouched. It simply is now quiet. Indeed, Biden’s actions seem to have strengthened it appreciably.”
Political activism by current and former CIA employees has shocked many American intelligence officers and people generally, he said.
Overt, intelligence-rationalized partisanship was quietly opposed by many professional intelligence officers but applauded by others who regarded it as a needed counter to Mr. Trump and his policies, Mr. Gentry said.
Former President Barack Obama was blamed by the former CIA analyst for setting in motion the current politicization through personnel diversity policies that Mr. Gentry said favored race and gender considerations over merit. The CIA under John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper also faced criticism for allegedly promoting political activism among spies and analysts.
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The United States is being invaded and our treasury is being robbed and the CIA is out there fighting against terrorist idiots in Vienna who want to mess up Tater Swuft’s Tater Tot Errors Concert.
This interview is very enlightening if you want to really understand what is going on.
If people don’t have the time. They will be missing something.
How long until this ends when nothing is real?
That 2023 History magazine special called
Inside the CIA sold at supermarket checkouts had the cover subtitle: Secretly Shaping the World.
Still true.
“Politicization of intelligence at the CIA reached new levels of activism under President Biden,”
Politicization of intelligence at the CIA reached new levels of activism under the people controlling President Biden,
There, fixed it
> John A. Gentry, a former CIA analyst… <
What will happen to the bold Mr. Gentry? Hint: Don’t pick A.
A. The CIA will hire him to clean up the agency.
B. He will be put on the TSA watchlist along with Tulsi Gabbard.
C. The FBI will raid his house and “find” papers he’s not supposed to have.
D. The IRS will investigate him for a smudge on line 24 of his 2005 tax return.
In Biden’s brave new America, any combination of B, C, D is possible. The Founders would be horrified by this.
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