Obama demands more diversity at national security agencies

President Obama declared Wednesday that the country’s national security workforce is less diverse than other areas of the federal government, and gave key agency leaders four months to report back to the White House on efforts to attract workers that better reflect the nation’s differences in gender, ethnicity and sexual identity.

Obama wrote a memo to his administration stressing the importance of building on his previous efforts to “draw upon the talents and skills of all parts of our society.”