Cliff Sims

Is that really the place that we're going to

draw from to have a truly diverse workforce.

Because here's the thing, diversity is actually important in intelligence, just not the way that they're talking about.

It's important.

I remember back during COVID, when we were trying to analyze streams of intelligence coming in to try to make sense of

COVID origins and all of that kind of stuff, it's really helpful to have Mandarin-speaking virologists to be able to decipher that stuff.

That's the kind of diversity that we need.

To operate on the streets of Tehran, who's going to have a better chance of pulling that off?

A native Farsi speaker who is from there or me?

Probably not a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Alabama boy.

That's exactly right.

That's exactly right.

This is the kind of diversity that's actually important in the intelligence world that we've lost that in favor of this woke stuff.

So I think getting more kids that are top students out of state schools and HBCUs and different places with different backgrounds than we have to this point, I think that's another thing that would be really, really important.

Well, the great thing about writing a book is it forces you to think deeply about

whatever your topic you're writing about.

And so my goal was, let me take some of these cool stories from inside the White House, inside the intelligence community, and let me think about a faith takeaway from each of them, a biblical lesson that could come from them.

And so it forced me to really dig into the Bible more deeply than I ever have before to come up with these lessons.

I had this kind of like, these columns.

I had a cool story column,