Is ours still a government of, by, and for the people? Don’t bet on it, says the smart money fiat currency, if an ex-CIA analyst’s warning is any guide.
In fact, states Dr. John Gentry, currently a Georgetown University professor, it’s likely that in this year’s election “the proverbial deep state within the intelligence community will reemerge because presumably a Republican candidate will again be seen as a threat to the internal policies that many intelligence people like.”
The CIA is well schooled in such activities, too, having reportedly helped overthrow seven governments since WWII (not counting Trump’s 2020 ouster).
Fox News reports on the story, writing that Gentry, “who spent 12 years as a CIA intelligence analyst,”
is warning that DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) efforts and the overall politicization of the intelligence community have become a “significant” problem and that he is confident those agencies will attempt to interfere with the 2024 election similar to their efforts in 2020.
“My guess is that the proverbial deep state within the intelligence community will reemerge because presumably a Republican candidate will again be seen as a threat to the internal policies that many intelligence people like,” Dr. John Gentry, author of the new book, “Neutering the CIA: Why US Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences,” told Fox News Digital.
Within days of the bombshell New York Post story that detailed the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop in the lead-up to the 2020 election, 51 former intelligence officials signed onto a letter in an attempt to discredit the laptop, saying it “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
The CIA approved the publication of the infamous Hunter Biden laptop letter, according to documents obtained by Fox News Digital in 2023.
Gentry told Fox News Digital that downplaying the Hunter Biden laptop was “clearly political” and that a highly placed source told him “in no uncertain terms” that it was done “explicitly” with the “intent to help the Biden campaign.”
Of course, well before the laptop scandal we learned of then-senior FBI agent Peter Strzok, who, it was revealed, had in 2016 told his paramour and then-FBI lawyer, Lisa Page, that they would “stop” Trump from being president.
This isn’t unusual now, either, says Gentry. As to this, he pointed out in the interview “how the intel agencies had been compromised by politics, that the standard of not being involved in politics was largely ‘gone’ and political activism was ‘common,’” Red State relates. “He pointed to two main reasons: former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Gentry said that they did things pursuant to DEI and ‘policy actions, in terms of specific recruitment efforts’ that helped to precipitate this change.”
The Claudine Gay Phenomenon
In other words, Gentry is blaming the intel agencies’ problems partially on what could be called the Claudine Gay Phenomenon. Gay, of course, is the plagiarizing academic who recently resigned from the Harvard University presidency, a position she only held in the first place because of her race and sex (note: This “scholar” has written/plagiarized only 11 articles and zero books).
Yet Gay is now par for the course, as our affirmative action/quota/identity politics mentality infects our whole civilization — including Big Intel. As State of the Union relates, the problem began with “an effort half a century ago to get more women and minorities into the intelligence community,” Gentry also said in the interview. The site continues:
“This was done under the rubric of affirmative action. It gradually became more of a policy through the Clinton administration. But it took a significant step forward, or not, depending on your perspective, when President Obama signed an executive order designed to improve diversity and inclusion in the federal workforce,” explained the analyst.
Gentry said former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper were, “very strongly supportive of Obama’s desire to transform the federal workforce, and so they began to accelerate this process and did a number of things from the standpoint of policy actions, in terms of specific recruitment efforts, for example, and they pushed their employees to be more concerned about diversity and inclusion issues and, even in Brennan’s case, to be politically active.”
“There are a lot of people who are unhappy about it because it’s politicizing the workforce, and it’s dividing the workforce among people who believe in DEI policies and those who don’t,” Gentry said.
It also appears that insofar as manipulating our elections goes, these Deep State incompetents do so with their own consciences’ approval; they believe they’re in the right, you see, that they’re justified in thwarting the “ignorant yahoos’” will.
Moreover, Gentry said that since intel operatives paid no price for their 2020 election manipulation and saw how effective it was, there’s little doubt they’ll be meddling again this year.
All this said, there’s a far deeper problem at work here, one expressed well by philosopher C.S. Lewis in 1943. “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise,” he wrote in The Abolition of Man. “We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
We can add, too, that we scoff at Truth while portraying relativism as sophistication and then are surprised when people make everything relative to themselves.
It takes honor, integrity — a sense of virtue — to put one’s passions aside and do one’s duty. Yet for decades we’ve been breeding people who know how to wash and dress and preen and use technology, but who morally are barbarians. So why wouldn’t they infect our intel agencies? They’re everywhere.
For those interested, in the below 2019 interview Gentry talks about how the CIA has been left-leaning since the ’80s.
And the following is an hour-long lecture Gentry recently gave on the politicization of Big Intel.
