DNI Gabbard: Employees Told Me They Were Expected to Spend Half of Their Day Within the Intelligence Community Focused on DEI Work

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GABBARD: "There’s a long list, but really the levels of very serious, deep reform that is essential. Number one, to restore trust on behalf of the American people in these institutions, to keep the American people safe, and being able to make sure that across the board we are focusing on that foremost mission. Obviously, the DEI stuff, that has been a huge distraction. I have had employees come and talk to me and say they were expected to spend half of their day within the intelligence community focused on DEI work. So if you can imagine, when we have intelligence professionals and analysts whose mission it is to make sure that the president has relevant, timely, apolitical objective intelligence to make his decisions by, but in the last administration they’re told you have got to spend half your day on DEI work, we can understand why the capabilities in some cases were so degraded."