When I joined the Army in the early '80s, back in those bad old Cold War days, one of the first things we learned in basic training was the Army's core mission: "To close with and destroy the enemy by fire, maneuver, and shock effect." Some years later, I made the acquaintance and earned the friendship of a man who, after two tours in Vietnam in the Marine Corps, joined the CIA and served as a Field Intelligence Officer for 30 years. He was in Iran in 1979 when the embassy fell; he served all over the world, becoming fluent in at least a dozen languages, and his last operation had something to do with the same event that was my first for-real deployment, in Operation Desert Storm. He is unable (as is the case with most of his career) to say where he was or what he was doing. Suffice it to say, he and his team kicked some and took some.

Oh, how things have changed.

Now, from The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, The Daily Wire's Spencer Lindquist has obtained a memo from an unnamed official who claims that cross-dressing makes him a better intelligence officer.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence sent a never-before-seen DEI memo to all 18 bodies of the Intel Community.

An agent says crossdressing “sharpened the skills I use as an intel officer” and turned him into a better ally for women and “LGBTQIA” people. pic.twitter.com/txd4X9AXqL

— Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) March 19, 2024

This memo went to all 18 bodies in the United States intelligence community.

Here's a sample of this person's reasoning.

“I am an intelligence officer, and I am a man who likes to wear women’s clothes sometimes,” the article, titled “My Gender Identity and Expression Make Me a Better Intelligence Officer,” states in its opening line. The author goes on to argue that his decision to crossdress “merits attention given the climate of discussion around the topic and where it sits in the larger conversation about gender identity and expression and professional appearance.”

No, none of this has anything to do with the purposes of the various United States intelligence agencies, who are tasked with gathering and analyzing information from foreign and domestic sources, to identify threats to the liberty and property of the people of the United States. This man's "gender identity" has nothing to do with that mission, and indeed presents a weakness that could be exploited by a hostile actor.

“I think my experiences as someone who crossdresses have sharpened the skills I use as an intelligence officer,” the anonymous intelligence officer claims, going on to say he is now “more aware of, and hopefully more supportive of, my women colleagues.” He expands on the point, saying that he has a “better appreciation for how it can be uncomfortable to wear women’s clothes sometimes.”

In what way does this aid in the mission noted above? In what way can an appreciation of how uncomfortable it can be to wear women's clothes sharpen any skills required to gather and analyze information? In what way is this a trait, hobby, lifestyle, or whatever you choose to call it, that is anything but detrimental to that vital mission?

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The memo went out to every intelligence operation the Director of National Intelligence oversees.

“The IC Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (IC DEIA) Office manages the IC’s efforts to build a diverse and inclusive workforce, and as part of their work, they distribute The Dive, a quarterly magazine, to each IC element’s DEIA office and/or Equal Employment Opportunity office,” the spokeswoman told The Daily Wire.

It's baffling that the U.S. Intelligence services even have an officer of "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility." This is anathema to the very nature of an intelligence service, which, like the military, must be focused on mission and mission alone to be effective. Like the military - or, at least, like the military should be - the intelligence services should have no consideration in manpower other than deployability and effectiveness. There are no other considerations that matter. And there can be no effective intelligence apparatus without that.

There is some hope for an end to this lunacy: Should he win the election, former President Trump has said he will reinstate Schedule F, which will allow him to summarily dismiss bureaucrats and government employees who, like this anonymous man, are a detriment to the agencies in which they work.

Trump has signaled that he will reimpose Schedule F, an executive order allowing him to fire woke bureaucrats.

But if he doesn't gut the administrative state, his policies will be undermined and his power nullified as the permanent state rules from behind the scenes. pic.twitter.com/VrIPY6uGUR

— Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) March 19, 2024

Maybe - just maybe - after next January, we'll see a dialing-back of some of this lunacy. People like this are a liability to the U.S. intelligence service; the tortured rationalization this anonymous writer suggests makes him a more effective intelligence operator makes him just the opposite. His predilections present a weakness, a liability that could be leveraged against him by a hostile power. We simply can't afford this, in the name of DEIA or anything else.

Our federal government has fully embraced the DEI monster to its bosom, and we as a nation are weaker for it; our liberty, property, and even our lives are threatened by this philosophy. It's past time this idea was put to rest.