Cliff Sims

Holy crap, we are good.

So that was fantastic.

I had that impression to some extent outside looking in.

You watch movies and wonder, can we really do some of these things?

And the answer is, a lot of times, yeah, we can.

Exactly, exactly.

So we got incredible capabilities.

On the other side of that, I was stunned, dismayed, horrified at the power of the intelligence community DEI office, both at ODNI and at the different agencies.

I mean, I'll never forget the first time I walked into CIA, first time I'd ever been there.

I don't care how...

what your view of the CIA is, how negative it is, or how awful you think of it.

If you walked in the side of the CIA the first time, you're like, I mean, this is something.

This is like legendary stuff has happened in this building, good, bad, and otherwise, you know, whatever.

I turned the corner to walk into the cafeteria and headquarters there, and there is a giant trans lives or human lives poster hanging outside the cafeteria.

what is this?

And I keep walking up and down the halls and I see all these posters that they've got in there for the, you know, talking about people's identity and, you know, diversity, equity, inclusion, how important it was there.

And, you know, I started talking to people there and how bullied, frankly, they felt.

I mean, they did, you know, earlier this year, there was an internal publication that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence put out inside the intelligence community.

And it was a cross-dresser,

explaining how being a cross-dresser made them a better intelligence officer.