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Georgetown Professor and Former CIA Analyst Warns of Intelligence Community’s Political Activism in 2024 Election
A Georgetown University professor, Dr. John Gentry, who spent 12 years as a CIA intelligence analyst, is raising concerns about the politicization of the intelligence community and its potential impact on the upcoming 2024 election. Gentry, author of the book “Neutering the CIA: Why US Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences,” believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts within intelligence agencies have become a significant problem.
According to Gentry, the so-called “deep state” within the intelligence community may reemerge, with former intelligence officers becoming politically active, particularly if a Republican candidate is perceived as a threat to internal policies favored by intelligence professionals.
According to Fox News, Gentry, points to the 2020 election, where 51 former intelligence officials signed a letter discrediting the Hunter Biden laptop story, calling it a “Russian information operation.” He deems this as a clear example of political bias within the intelligence community, aimed at benefiting the Biden campaign.
The professor argues that DEI policies introduced in recent decades have shifted the focus of intelligence agencies away from their core operations to a more politically driven agenda. He identifies former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper as key drivers of this shift, supporting Obama-era initiatives to transform the federal workforce.
Gentry contends that DEI and politicization have negatively impacted morale among intelligence professionals, creating divisions among those who support such policies and those who don’t. He suggests that this environment may lead to a reemergence of political activism within the intelligence community during the 2024 election.
In response, CIA Director William Burns acknowledged the challenge of preventing politicization within the intelligence community, emphasizing the importance of providing unbiased intelligence, even when inconvenient for policymakers. Gentry’s book aims to shed light on the political issues within intelligence agencies, highlighting the potential consequences for future elections.
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Organization Launches Campaign to Spin Immigration Narrative by Suppressing Free Speech
Billionaire Lauren Powell Jobs is fighting “immigration misinformation” through her new group Catalyze/Citizens by seeking to suppress mainstream public criticism of Extraction Migration policies. According to Breitbart, Jobs is demanding changes be made to Internet law to allow her to do so, which would require an anti-free speech law from Congress or a major Supreme Court decision.
In a statement released on December 3, Catalyze/Citizens said that Section 230 of the [Internet-related] Communications Decency Act would need to be reformed to allow the group to “counter far-right disinformation campaigns” and “build safer online spaces and AI technology.”
“Through these efforts, C/C aims to champion and elect pro-immigrant leaders, mobilize uncommon allies, and drive narrative interventions that protect immigrant communities and strengthen democratic values,” the statement added.
According to Breitbart:
“The group’s blame-the-narrative campaign echoes the view of many pro-migration groups that Donald Trump won the election by manipulating the voters via distorted media reports. That claim sidelines the evidence that voters recognize the vast economic and civic damage caused by the elite-driven desire for the extraction of many more foreign blue-collar and white-collar workers, renters, and consumers from poor countries.”
Andrea Flores, the chief lobbyist at Mark Zuckberg’s FWD.us pro-migration group, suggested that President Joe Biden take the blame for not spreading a “pro-migration narrative” enough, which allowed the campaign of now President-elect Donald Trump to succeed with their reports on the border crisis and the snowball effect it had on multiple aspects of American life including on businesses, housing, crime and security overall.
Catalyze/Citizens is an extension of Jobs’ Immigration Hub group and is to be headed by Beatriz Lopez who backed the mission to “tackle the source of disinformation by championing policies and solutions that ensure social media responsibility and online and AI safety.”
Each proponent cited discussing the mission of Catalyze/Citizens appears to consistently reference the need to address “dangerous online disinformation.” It is noteworthy that social media companies have come under scrutiny for their information policing of users, which critics argue hamper First Amendment rights.
The group Catalyze/Citizens also pointed out that Vice President Kamala Harris and her campaign failed to focus on immigration policies and frame them in a favorable light. A report released by the group shows that Trump, on the other hand, focused largely on immigration spending millions to “frame immigration as a national threat.”
According to Breitbart, the Extraction Migration policy championed by Jobs and criticized by Trump can be explained as follows:
“The migration policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries. The additional workers, white-collar graduates, consumers, and renters push up stock values by shrinking Americans’ wages, subsidizing low-productivity companies, boosting rents, and spiking real estate prices.”
Breitbart adds, “The little-recognized economic policy has loosened the economic and civic feedback signals that animate a stable economy and democracy. It has pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors, reduced Americans’ productivity and political clout, slowed high-tech innovation, shrunk trade, crippled civic solidarity, and incentivized government officials and progressives to ignore the rising death rate of discarded, low-status Americans.”
President-elect Donald Trump recognized the implications of this policy, and has worked hard to warn Americans against it. In an effort to defend the policy however, supporters of it are calling Trump’s efforts “narrative trickery,” which led to the development of Catalyze/Citizens. If able, progressives see that the solution is in shifting the narrative by targeting speech critical of the policy.
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