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April 6, 2024
Partisan Intelligence Activism Will Reemerge in 2024
By John A. Gentry
U.S. intelligence personnel likely will resume the activism they prominently displayed in 2016-2021 as the presidential campaign season deepens. They then were driven by ideology and special interests, which now are stronger. Many of the former senior intelligence officers then critical of Donald Trump have badly damaged their credibility, so new politicizers with new messages may emerge, especially after July, when Trump presumably will be formally renominated.
The agencies themselves, as matters of policy, will not be activist. The culprits will be former intelligence officers with deeply partisan views, who have few restrictions on their public activities, and current employees who leak. Agency leaders do not directly control these activities, but some past and current leaders established policies that continue to strongly encourage tendencies toward political activism.
President Obama was the major instigator of the politicization of U.S. intelligence. His Executive Order (EO) 13583 of August 18, 2011, “Establishing a Coordinated Government-wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce,” summarized his explicitly political agenda, which soon became known as “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI). Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dennis Blair converted an early version of Obama’s diversity agenda into Intelligence Community policy in 2009, before Obama’s government-wide mandate.
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Partisan Intelligence Activism Will Reemerge in 2024
There is no need for it to "re-emerge" because it has never stopped.
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The agencies themselves, as matters of policy, will not be activist.
Except that evidence suggests that's not true: The FBI director made up out of whole cloth a mens rea clause in the statute criminalizing the mishandling of classified information so that investigation of Hillary Clinton's uses of a private server could be dropped. Investigations of Biden for retaining classified documents in his garage and giving some of them to Penn from his time as Vice President when he had no declassification authority were quashed. Contrast that with the continued prosecution of Trump for retaining classified documents from his time as President. I wouldn't hold out much hope that the CIA, NSA and DIA are any better, though since they don't perform criminal investigations, their malfeasance in support of the Democrats will be harder to notice.