Cliff Sims

Are you serious?

Dead serious.

In that same publication, they were talking about the importance of the use of words, that we've got to be careful with the words that we use.

For instance, when we're talking about Chinese malign influence, we should be very careful that the way that we're doing it is not bigoted toward Asian people.

Or when we're talking about

we should be very careful not to say things like Islamic terrorism or radical Islamic terrorism or jihadist or, you know, all these different terms that they're saying are offensive in some way or another.

Now, imagine if you are a totally normal professional intelligence analyst and you're sitting at your desk taking all these threat streams that are flowing into you and trying to make sense of this stuff and analyze these things and produce reports so that the most important decision makers in our country can make the most informed decisions that they can, and you're having to spend half your time making sure you don't write anything offensive.

in your analytical writing.

I mean, that is not just absurd, it's dangerous.

It's dangerous.

So given the opportunity to come back, and this is some of the stuff that's happening in the Biden administration right now, I think the Trump administration would definitely try to fix some of those things.

No, I agree.

There's a serious brain drain that has happened as a result of that, because people just don't want to fool with it.

I mean, they just really don't want anything to do with it.

So I think there's some things that we need to do going forward to prevent this.

And one is,

even the places where the intelligence community is recruiting talent, a lot of them come out of Ivy League schools.

And look what's happening on campus at these Ivy League schools right now.

And these people are getting indoctrinated into this kind of woke ideology.

It's certainly not the place, especially with the anti-Semitism we're seeing on these campuses right now.