{"id":2205919,"date":"2024-03-25T17:23:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T21:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-blasts-biden-intel-office-over-diversity-newsletter-worse-than-silly-its-dangerous\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T17:26:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T21:26:29","slug":"ted-cruz-blasts-biden-intel-office-over-diversity-newsletter-worse-than-silly-its-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-blasts-biden-intel-office-over-diversity-newsletter-worse-than-silly-its-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz criticizes Biden&#8217;s Intelligence Office for Diversity Newsletter, deeming it &#8220;more than silly\u2014it&#8217;s dangerous."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fted-cruz-blasts-biden-intel-office-over-diversity-newsletter-worse-than-silly-its-dangerous%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2205919&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator Ted Cruz criticized\u200c the Biden administration&#8217;s intelligence office for\u200d a newsletter\u200b instructing agents to avoid &#8220;problematic language&#8221;\u200b regarding Islamic terrorism and embracing crossdressing. Cruz warned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/target-loses-nearly-15b-in-market-value-amid-backlash-against-pride-merch\/\" title=\"Target's Market Value Drops by B Due to Backlash Against Pride Merch.\">prioritizing political correctness<\/a> over national security endangers Americans. The\u2064 document, promoting DEI\u200b ideals, raised concerns about intelligence efficacy. Senator Tom Cotton also condemned the newsletter, emphasizing the need for a focus\u2063 on national security \u2064over DEI initiatives.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted the Biden administration\u2019s top intelligence office in response to a diversity newsletter it sent out instructed intelligence agents to avoid using \u201cproblematic language\u201d when discussing Islamic terrorism and celebrating crossdressing in its ranks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201cOn one level you say, \u2018okay, this sort of language political correctness stuff, it\u2019s silly\u2019. But in this instance, it\u2019s much worse than silly. It is dangerous,\u201d Cruz said on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1772264555420242317?s=20\">his podcast<\/a>, referencing a Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/internal-docs-show-entire-intelligence-community-warned-to-avoid-problematic-phrases-on-islamic-terrorism\">investigation<\/a> that revealed the contents of an official Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) diversity newsletter called \u201cThe Dive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The newsletter was sent to the NSA, FBI, CIA, and components within each branch of the military and it specifically stated that the terms \u201cJihadist\u201d and \u201cradical Islam\u201d should be avoided because of their \u201churtful\u201d nature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/internal-docs-show-entire-intelligence-community-warned-to-avoid-problematic-phrases-on-islamic-terrorism\">Internal Docs Show Entire Intelligence Community Warned To Avoid \u2018Problematic Phrases\u2019 On Islamic Terrorism<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cruz warned that the ODNI\u2019s insistence on using sensitive language when discussing counter terrorism threatens to endanger Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the intelligence community \u2026 refuses to acknowledge what is actually happening, it means they will be utterly ineffective in fighting against it and keeping Americans and our allies safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The intelligence community\u2019s embrace of the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda under the Biden administration comes as the Democrat president has worked to institutionalize the leftwing dogma throughout all agencies within the executive branch.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz went on to point out that the ODNI document marks a continuation of an Obama era effort to advance political correctness even when it undermines our national security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is continuing the path of putting politics above national security that we saw when Barack Obama was president,\u201d Sen. Cruz contended. \u201cWhen Barack Obama was president, I actually chaired a hearing that examined the purge, that the Obama White House insisted DHS to remove from their records any reference to radical Islamic terrorism, or Islam, or Muslim, or jihadist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOctober 7 was carried out by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad,\u201d Cruz reminded before adding \u201cApparently, that is an inconvenient fact to the language, commissars, who I presume want to edit out the word Islamic from the name of the terrorist group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While much of the document focused on avoiding \u201cproblematic phrases\u201d when discussing Islamic terrorism, it also sought to police language used by intelligence agents more broadly. The newsletter\u2019s theme was \u201cwords matter,\u201d and the opening article boasted that \u201cIC employee resource groups advocating for Asian and Pacific Islander heritage have been particularly successful in creating a new framework and language guidelines for how we talk about the People\u2019s Republic of China.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The same ODNI document also featured an article from an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-silent-as-biden-contradicts-u-s-intelligence-on-china-remember-how-they-reacted-when-trump-did-that-on-russia\/\" title=\"Media Silent As Biden Contradicts U.S. Intelligence On China. Remember How They Reacted When Trump Did That On Russia?\">anonymous intelligence agent<\/a> who claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bidens-top-intelligence-agency-says-crossdressing-makes-man-better-intelligence-officer-internal-docs-show\">crossdressing<\/a> makes him a \u201cbetter intelligence officer,\u201d citing his newfound ability to relate to women and his capacity as an ally for \u201cLGBTQIA+\u201d individuals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bidens-top-intelligence-agency-says-crossdressing-makes-man-better-intelligence-officer-internal-docs-show\">Biden\u2019s Top Intelligence Agency Says Crossdressing Makes Man \u2018Better Intelligence Officer,\u2019 Internal Docs Show<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and U.S. Army veteran who fought in Afghanistan, also condemned the newsletter and warned that the prioritization of DEI could have serious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/never-before-seen-video-of-navys-disastrous-red-hill-fuel-leak-in-hawaii-raises-accountability-questions\/\" title=\"Never-Before-Seen Video of Navy\u2019s Disastrous Red Hill Fuel Leak in Hawaii Raises Accountability Questions\">national security consequences<\/a>. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration putting DEI above national security concerns is a tragedy waiting to happen,\u201d Cotton told The Daily Wire after reviewing the newsletter. \u201cOur intelligence agencies should spend their time finding terrorists, not worrying about whether they will offend them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence and U.S. Army veteran who fought in the elite Green Berets, also called out the ODNI document as a return to Obama-era directives. \u201cIt is a return to the same Obama Administration head-in-the-sand approach to Islamic extremism that led to Obama calling ISIS the JV team,\u201d Waltz argued. \u201cThe same people are now running the Biden Administration, so it is no surprise they are making the same mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ODNI is not the only facet of the intelligence community that\u2019s pushed far-left dogmas on race and gender in the name of DEI. The National Security Agency (NSA) published an internal DEI glossary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-leaked-nsa-doc-reveals-massive-woke-glossary-pushing-critical-race-theory-gender-ideology-on-govt-employees\">exclusively obtained<\/a> by The Daily Wire, that included terms like \u201cwhite fragility,\u201d \u201ctransmisogyny,\u201d \u201csettler colonialism,\u201d and even the gender neutral pronouns of \u201cze\u201d and \u201czir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The DEI agenda has spread throughout the federal government largely thanks to executive orders from Biden that sought to institutionalize extreme ideologies into the operations of the federal bureaucracy. Former President Donald Trump has signaled that he may gut the federal bureaucracy through an executive order called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/07\/22\/trump-presidency-schedule-f-federal-employees\">Schedule F<\/a>, which would remove civil services protections from thousands of bureaucrats who threaten to undermine his agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Others are preparing to fill in the gap left by outgoing officials, assembling a personnel database of those who might serve in the next administration through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project2025.org\/\">Project 2025<\/a> Presidential Transition Project, an initiative from the Heritage Foundation that seeks to \u201cpave the way for an effective conservative Administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) criticized the Biden administration\u2019s top intelligence office for a diversity newsletter instructing agents to avoid &#8220;problematic language&#8221; on Islamic terrorism and promote crossdressing. 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