John A. Gentry

And I actually had four representatives of the ODNI complain about that article to my journal editor, basically threatening him.

Kind of interesting.

What kind of threat?

You're threatening in the sense that we're going to consider your journal not to be a reputable intelligence journal anymore.

So not tangible threats.

not tangible threats in terms of money or physical violence or anything of that sort.

But it was implied.

So the editor told me this.

Okay, so I also got a lot of responses from people who said, yeah, you're right, it's not helping out.

And the point you made at the end of this, which was that, gee, we ought to look at the alternative, which is they claim that the DEI policies are damaging the performance of intelligence.

So a lot of people got in touch with me, several dozen got in touch with me and said, you should do this next project and let me tell you some of these problems.

So I now have a significant body of evidence on this score.

I will be writing up what I have within the next couple of months.

And my expectation at this point is that the argument is going to be that the DEI substantially damages operational performance.

So I'm still working on it, so I'll perhaps leave off some of the details here.

But these run from budgetary issues to hiring issues to performance in the field issues.

And I haven't found any anecdotes or anything that says that DEI does a good job.

So if I could put a little plug out to the world here, I make a point of never asking serving intelligence officers questions like this, but I will take information they give me if they offer it.

And I do ask former intelligence people if they've got anecdotes to give.

So if any of your folks