John A. Gentry

Why?

Because we want CIA to look like America.

look like America.

So this was a political goal that was demographically oriented.

So even more importantly than this, in 2011, in August of 2011, Obama issued an executive order which applied to the entire federal government.

And it pushed the hiring, promotion, and better assignments of people who he liked, basically privileged demographic groups.

Per the Obama administration, that would be minorities, women,

LGBTQ people, and eventually people with disabilities.

So that would not include people who were healthy, male, heterosexual, and of European origin.

Right?

So Obama now is pushing this, and this 2011 executive order has got teeth.

So you're creating now diversity offices within the federal government, and these offices are told to make and implement and enforce the policies consistent with the executive order within the agencies themselves.

And these, in fact, had teeth.

So you've got now agency heads paying attention to what the president says, who are giving authority to the diversity offices, and you're beginning to make changes in the way the agencies do business.

Policy-wise, you're having cultural changes in little ways.

So John Brennan began to wear a rainbow lanyard.

You know, you recall what lanyards are in the intelligence business.

So these are little chains or ropes or things of that sort around your neck that hold your identification documents, right?

So the lanyard now, the thing around the neck,

was now a rainbow one, basically an appeal to the LGBTQ people at CIA.