John A. Gentry

They have different organizational cultures.

The FBI is different than the Navy, is different than the Marine Corps, is different than the State Department, and so on.

And in the intelligence world, some organizations have been thought of being generally more liberal than others, with State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research being generally speaking on the political liberal side, as opposed to leftist liberal, not leftist, CIA being close to that, and then the military services being more liberal.

being more conservative.

Okay, so this has been around for a long time.

Now, what happened in the Obama years is that Senator Obama, in October of 2008, right before the 2008 election, said that he was on the verge of winning the election and transforming the country.

And pretty clearly, soon thereafter, he made good on that promise.

And the way he did it, in the words of John Brennan, who for four years was a close advisor to Obama in the White House, and then became CIA director in Obama's last four years.

So Brennan says in his book that what Obama wanted to do was change the country in an evolutionary, not a revolutionary way.

That's right out of Brennan's book.

Okay, so what you see then consistent with that kind of view is that early in the President Obama period, you began to see changes in policies related particularly to the federal workforce.

My interpretation here is you're going to change the country.

One of the best ways to do that is to change the federal workforce first, because these are the people who make and enforce regulations and so on.

They do the kinds of things we were talking about earlier.

So by July of 2009, so Obama's in office for six months, you see policies promulgated at the ODNI level.

So ODNI is the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

to implement what we now call diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.

So DNI, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair signed this.

And at the same time, the then CIA director Leon Panetta

issued a paper document, which I got a hold of at one point, that said, we are going to at CIA, we at CIA are going to increase the number of minorities at CIA from 24 to 30% by 2012.