John A. Gentry

He says in his memoir, it's kind of funny, he says, wow, you know, I really didn't want to get onto Twitter, but Trump made me do it because I couldn't leave the Twitter sphere to Trump.

I had to respond to him.

So it's all Trump's fault.

So you regret it, but then that's why I did it.

But at least for the moment, and he also says in his memoir that he had some real issues with personal discipline, but at least for the moment, he's been quiet on this front.

Will he stay?

We'll see, we'll see.

But my guess is that if he comes back, there'll be a number of people

who will remind the citizenry about some of the outrageous things that he said during the Trump years.

Okay, so this is an important issue.

Intelligence, as you well know, is part of the national security establishment.

You want your intelligence people to perform well.

They help senior people make better decisions if intelligence works right, and they help keep the country secure.

Okay, so how does this affect?

Again, going back to Obama years, my assertion that the real change occurred at that point.

In the beginning of the Obama DEI policies, the rationale was that

DEI policies, again, changed hiring, promotion, award, assignments, basically, at least in these four areas.

And they were done on a policy basis.

that these were ethically good, that this was a morally good thing to do to help disadvantaged people and so on.

So the initial argument was ethical in nature.