Recently, former U.S. Secretary of State and former CIA Director Mike Pompeo has attacked the CIA for its recent series of recruitment ads. He argued that the CIA cannot risk national security to promote liberal ideas and a “wake-up call agenda.
In the past few months, the Biden administration has launched a series of ads to recruit CIA staff. These ads have been highly visible in terms of the race and gender identity of the employees, such as a young black woman, a disabled white woman, a gay white man, and a Latina immigrant mother.
The Latina immigrant mother says in the ad, “I am a diverse and interwoven collection, but I don’t exist to check off the boxes. I am a walking manifesto, a woman who speaks without ending sentences with rising tones or asking questions by implication. I am a woman of color, a mother, and a cisgender millennial diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD).”
The jingles have stirred up widespread criticism from the community, especially from conservatives. They argue that the ads are not focused on maintaining national security, but rather on promoting liberal ideas of diversity and inclusion.
On Tuesday, May 4, Pompeo made a critique of the ads. He recalled how, when he was CIA director, a female staffer was grateful that he valued her for her work, not her gender.
“When I was director of the CIA, we evaluated employees on their talents and skills, not their race or their sexual orientation. I will never forget a female analyst saying to me, ‘Thank you for valuing my work. I want my abilities and accomplishments to define me, not my sexual orientation,'” Pompeo tweeted.
“The people who serve the United States in the CIA are incredibly talented and patriotic, and they are the ones who make it (the CIA) the best intelligence agency in the world. We must continue to recruit the best and the brightest. We cannot risk our nation’s security for the sake of a liberal wake up call agenda,” Pompeo said.
Donald Trump Jr., son of former U.S. President Donald Trump, also tweeted criticism, saying, “China and Russia are watching the CIA’s full-blown wake-up call and laughing. The ‘cisgender’ and ‘intersectional’ …… are handling the CIA’s work. If you think about it, (it becomes clear) that ‘arousal’ is a twisted psychological operation (PSYOP) invented by an intelligence agency from the inside out to destroy this country.”
Former CIA officer Bryan Wright also commented on Twitter, “The CIA used to be on a mission to protect the country. (My experience tells me) Now it asks – and gets – permission to focus on repairing emotional wounds or advancing personal agendas. With such a new CIA, America is less safe and more dangerously politicized.”
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