An internal newsletter sent by diversity, equity and inclusion officials in the Biden administration’s top intelligence agency warns personnel not to use “problematic phrases” when discussing potential foreign terror threats. (RELATED: Biden’s ‘Inclusive’ Regime Moves To Ban Iconic WW2 Photograph)
The unclassified newsletter from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), called “The Dive” was exclusively obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by The Daily Wire. The newsletter kicks off by stating the intelligence community should focus on “changing terminology related to counterterrorism” because “words matter.”
“This article is about one of our goals: disentangling Islam from words and phrases used to discuss terrorism and extremist violence,” writes the author of the article, whose name was redacted from the document released to The Daily Wire. The article declares that it’s trying to remove “certain phrases to identify international terrorism threats that are hurtful to Muslim-Americans.”
“Some of the problematic phrases include, but are not limited to: ‘Salafi-Jihadist,’ ‘Jihadist,’ ‘Islamic-Extremist,’ ‘Sunni/Shia-Extremism,’ and ‘Radical Islamists.’”
The article is part of the newsletter created by ODNI’s Intelligence Community Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Office and sent out to personnel throughout the Intelligence Community, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), as well as intelligence components within each branch of the military.
The newsletter featured similar articles highlighting DEI language.
Republicans have raised concerns that the newsletter gives weight to concerns the Biden administration is more concerned with appeasing the woke mob instead of addressing legitimate national security concerns.
Senate Intelligence Committee and U.S. Army veteran Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), newsletter is another example of misplaced priorities by the Biden administration.
“The Biden administration putting DEI above national security concerns is a tragedy waiting to happen,” Cotton told The Daily Wire after reviewing the newsletter. “Our intelligence agencies should spend their time finding terrorists, not worrying about whether they will offend them.”
However, the newsletter did not just address phrases directed towards Islamic terrorism. The entire edition focused on purging “biased” terminology from the communications of the intelligence community.
Another portion of the newsletter went on to condemn the use of everyday terms like “cakewalk” and “blacklist,” accusing the words of being loaded with bias. Instead of saying “I’ve been blacklisted from this event,” for example, the ODNI newsletter tells personnel to say “I’ve been banned,” arguing that “blacklisted implies black is bad and white is good.” It claims that “cakewalk” should also be avoided because it allegedly “refers to a dance performed by slaves for slave owners on plantation grounds.”
A spokesman for ODNI confirmed that the newsletter was sent out to the entire Intelligence Community.
“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 spokesman told The Daily Wire.
You can read the entire edition of “The Dive,” titled “Words Matter: The Importance of Words,” here:
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