He had lots of help evidently. They were over there making 'diversity quilts'!
I very much respect your work as CIA Director(George Tenet), and the concerns expressed in this letter are certainly not a reflection on your distinguished leadership or that of your predecessors. By word and by deed, you have demonstrated a welcome commitment to fighting bias within the CIA, including your initiative to institute a program of sensitivity training for CIA employees. If a problem exists anywhere within the CIA, I am confident you will take the necessary steps to address it. (letter by Mr. Abraham Foxman, Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, 13 April 1999)
Mr. Foxman has recognized these failings in the agency only because the CIA is now willing to pay the ADL for the organization's "sensitivity training."
According to Mr. Sher, the people at the CIA who "ruined the career in government of a promising attorney" don't need sensitivity training. "They need to learn to follow the law," said Mr. Sher. "Until Tenet resolves the Ciralsky case, everything else is window dressing." Change the Environment
While Mr. Foxman acknowledged that the ADL will receive funds from the CIA for the training program, he said the agency's participation in the program would help change the environment that permitted anti-Semitism to fester.
At CIA, Gay Pride Comes In From the Cold
Washington Post, June 9, 2000
By Vernon Loeb, Washington Post Staff Writer
While the terrorists and their sponsors were plotting to hijack airliners and crash them into Manhattan skyscrapers and the Pentagon, senior CIA officials were compelling analysts and operations officers to attend sensitivity-training classes and sew diversity quilts. That is a fact.
A current CIA manager, who requested anonymity, tells Insight that intelligence professionals are forced to attend sensitivity-training classes and do role-playing skits to conform to politically correct social themes. Another CIA official adds, “The management wasted countless thousands of hours by making all of us sit through workshops to make politically correct diversity quilts.” Pieces of fabric were distributed to CIA employees on which they were instructed to sew, draw or glue art, photographs and slogans reflecting “diversity” themes dictated during mandatory sensitivity seminars. “Can you imagine being a manager and having your staff say, ‘Sorry, I need to take off an hour to work on my diversity quilt?’ It just scalds me.” He estimates that the quilting workshops and seminars cost the CIA more than 20,000 hours of employee time. The diversity quilts are on display inside CIA headquarters.
I certainly don't have a problem with minorities or women but the diversity training and hiring practices have just given us non-existent standards. lets bring back meaningfull standards, and if they can meet them, give them a chance to prove themselves in the workplace.