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   From: jcarter@dont-email.me   
      
   First there were parents flagged at school board meetings. Then it was   
   Catholics who preferred the traditional Latin Mass who were targeted for   
   scrutiny.   
      
   Now, the CIA's retraction of nineteen "politicized" intel reports on   
   Friday - on the heels of the agency's self-critique last year on its   
   assessment of Trump-Russia collusion in 2016 - has put the sharpest light   
   yet on the infection of political bias inside American spy agencies dating   
   back to the Obama era.   
      
   The CIA announced on Friday that it was retracting or revising nineteen   
   different intelligence reports, dating from 2015 through 2023 - spanning   
   the Obama administration, the first Trump presidency, and the Biden   
   administration. The politicized assessments - many of them focused on DEI-   
   related issues - included pronouncements by the CIA about white women,   
   motherhood, violent extremism, LGBT issues, abortion, and others well   
   beyond the remit of the agency's mission.   
      
   "The intelligence products we released to the American people today -   
   produced before my tenure as DCIA - fall short of the high standards of   
   impartiality that CIA must uphold and do not reflect the expertise for   
   which our analysts are renowned," Ratcliffe said Friday. "There is   
   absolutely no room for bias in our work and when we identify instances   
   where analytic rigor has been compromised, we have a responsibility to   
   correct the record."   
      
   The CIA's retractions on Friday are the latest examples of the politicized   
   nature of the intelligence community over the past decade, including a   
   Biden Justice Department  memo aimed at parents protesting at school board   
   meetings, an FBI memo aimed at traditionalist Catholics, an intelligence   
   community assessment that sought to link Trump to Russia, and more.   
      
   CIA rescinds nearly two dozen politicized intel assessments   
   "There is absolutely no room for bias in any kind of the CIA's work," a   
   senior CIA official told Just the News on Friday. "So when we find   
   instances where our tradecraft did not reach that high bar of   
   impartiality, we must correct the record. And that's why we're taking   
   steps to reinforce analytic integrity by ordering the public release,   
   substantive revision or retraction of these products that do not meet   
   CIA's tradecraft standards."   
      
   Of the 19 analytical reports, 17 have been permanently deleted and are no   
   longer available for spy agencies to use in their work and two were   
   recalled and revised and then re-released, the official said.   
      
   One of the retracted reports was made public by the CIA on Friday from the   
   agency's Counterterrorism Mission Center, while two of them come from the   
   CIA's World Intelligence Review (WIRe), which is described as a "daily   
   publication" at the agency and as the "flagship product" of the CIA's   
   Directorate of Analysis.   
      
   "Under prior administrations, there was an inappropriate insertion of DEI   
   issues and other distractions into aspects of CIA's work, which undercut   
   our mission of providing objective analysis on national security issues,"   
   the senior CIA official said Friday.   
      
   One now-retracted intelligence assessment from the CIA from October 2021 –   
   the first year of Biden's presidency – was titled "Women Advancing White   
   Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremist Radicalization and   
   Recruitment." The intelligence product was "produced under the auspices of   
   the Chief of Analysis" at the "Counterterrorism Mission Center."   
      
   The assessment cited a 2021 article by "An Injustice!" – a seemingly   
   defunct radical website hosted by Medium that described itself as "A new   
   intersectional publication, geared towards voices, values, and identities!   
   […] We speak to the intersectionality of identity and share the stories of   
   those who bring all their selves into all their spaces."   
      
   Another retracted CIA intelligence assessment – this one from July 2020   
   during the final year of Trump's first term – was part of the CIA's WIRe   
   Contraceptive Shortfalls Threaten Economic Development" and took a   
   seemingly pro-abortion tone – including citing pro-abortion sources.   
      
   The agency product cited an April 2020 article by the International   
   Planned Parenthood Federation three different times, and the pro-abortion   
   Guttmacher Institute also had articles cited by the CIA product four   
   times.   
      
      
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