KEEPING US SAFE, THE DIVERSE WAY – 7:52 A.M. ET:  We see grave threats, including potential nuclear threats, emerging all over the world.  But our CIA may not be ready to confront them.  Why?  It's obvious:  lack of diversity.  There is a diversity crisis at the CIA.  This may be the end of our Republic as we know it.  From The Wall Street Journal: 

The Central Intelligence Agency is once again mired in crisis. CIA Director John Brennan finds himself “deeply concerned.” The spy agency he runs suffers from an affliction that he says has “persisted despite repeated efforts by Agency leaders to address it.”

What is ailing this vital guardian of national security? The CIA’s upper echelon, Mr. Brennan said on Tuesday, does “not reflect the diversity of the Agency workforce or of the nation.”

Mr. Brennan was commenting on the “Director’s Diversity in Leadership Study,” an unclassified report released that day. The study comes to the “unequivocal conclusion,” he said in a statement, that there has been a major failure at the agency in the “crucial” area of diversity and inclusiveness.

The CIA director commissioned the study last year, convening a panel of experts to perform a comprehensive assessment of diversity in the agency’s workforce. The study is partly based on the results of an “Agency-wide instrument”—in non-spy-speak, “instrument” means questionnaire—developed in conjunction with research psychologists attached to the CIA’s Office of Medical Services. It also draws on hundreds of formal and informal interviews and 28 focus groups, including not only spies based at headquarters in Langley, Va., but also agents working incognito in a dozen undisclosed locations out in the cold.

COMMENT:   So the director is "deeply concerned."  Have you ever noticed how the Washington crowd is always "deeply concerned" about something?  Never "mildly" concerned or just "concerned," but always "deeply concerned."  Have you ever wondered how deep?  I don't think very deep.

We all know that "diversity" is a codeword for groups popular on the political left.  That's what is wanted here.  Gone forever is the notion, which we were sold many years ago, that we are to judge people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.  Too bad.  That was a great idea.

July 6, 2015