The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is supposed to focus on supervising and synthesizing the intelligence community‘s various lines of effort. The ODNI’s effort to feed the Biden administration‘s fixation with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives is undermining that responsibility.
As first reported by the Daily Wire and expanded upon by the Washington Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo, the ODNI’s DEI efforts carry an increasingly formal and expansive nature. The Daily Wire focuses on the ODNI testimony of a male intelligence officer who explains why he finds professional and personal benefits in cross-dressing. This seems silly, but the real concern here is not actually about cross-dressing. We see the best hint at this with the cross-dressing officer’s observation that many of his colleagues simply “ignored” his dress choices. This observation underlines how the vast majority of IC personnel care far more about how well someone does their job than how they decide to dress.
