DEI in the FBI: The Rise of the Bureau's Division of Ideological Enforcement
Do you want to know why the FBI is so comfortable with overt political persecution? Look no further than its practice of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
by Mark Ousley, August 15, 2022
When the FBI raided the home of former President of the United States Donald Trump, last week, it left even some of the most outspoken Trump critics astonished at how the supposedly non-partisan Federal Bureau of Investigation could do something so blatantly partisan.
“They have crossed the Rubicon… It’s unprecedented.,” said George Conway, a notorious critic of Donald Trump, in a recent TV appearance on CNN. “It’s just a remarkable thing to see that the FBI and the Justice Department would take such a step.”
For all the astonished onlookers and career pundits asking how the FBI could sink to the level of “banana republic” parody of itself, I humbly but assuredly submit to you the answer — look no further than the FBI’s office and culture of Diversity, [Equity] and Inclusion.
Taken independently, the three words “Diversity,” “Equity,” and “Inclusion,” have come to mean different things to different people. But the conjoined moniker, “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” or “DEI,” identifies a very specific institutional presence and politically motivated mode of operation that’s becoming virtually ubiquitous in American daily life. From universities, to oil companies, to city governments, to your local church, there seems to be a DEI office, director, committee, or all of the above, every where you turn. But these seemingly independent institutions-within-institutions operate with amazing consistency across the familiar borders meant to divide our public and private existences.
DEI appeared in the federal government via Executive Order 13583, signed by President Obama in August of 2011, and it was focused explicitly on injecting DEI ideology and methodology into the federal government’s hiring and recruitment processes.
The EO tasked the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to, “develop and issue a Government-wide Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan (Government-wide Plan)…,” designed to, “…review applicable directives to agencies related to the development or submission of agency human capital and other workforce plans and reports in connection with recruitment, hiring, promotion, retention, professional development, and training policies and practices, and develop a strategy for consolidating such agency plans and reports where appropriate and permitted by law… .”
“All of our 56 field offices, as well as our 33 divisions at headquarters, have diversity and inclusion coordinators, and they're the people that we'd like to say are ambassadors … that are out there in the field to ensure that those special events and commemorative programs, diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility mission is being achieved in each individual field office. So that's very important to us.”
- FBI Chief Diversity Officer Scott McMillion, in an interview with the Government Executive, December 6, 2021.
It took most of President Obama’s second term for his EO to manifest at James Comey’s FBI, but on November 24th, 2015, the Bureau’s Diversity and Inclusion Program Policy Guide Policy Directive, went into effect. The directive represented the beginning of a systemic ideological shift in the recruitment and hiring practices of the FBI. It created three separate DEI advisory boards devoted to enhancing DEI recruitment, and a D[E]I coordinator position in all FBI offices, tasked with implementing DEI policies and practices.
“FBI Headquarters (FBIHQ) divisions and field offices (FO) must designate D&IC coordinators to ensure that diversity and inclusion principles, policies, and practices, are implemented throughout the Bureau.”
- The FBI’s Diversity and Inclusion Program Policy Guide Policy Directive, November 24, 2015.
While the FBI directive claims an emphasis on hiring agents based on outward characteristics, such as race and gender (which alone could be interpreted as a direct violation of the federal civil rights laws used to justify Obama’s EO), more recent statements by the FBI’s first DEI Director Scott McMillion, strongly indicate that outward representation is not the overarching goal of the FBI’s DEI policies and practices in hiring and recruitment.
In a December 6, 2021, interview with Government Executive, the FBI’s first Chief Diversity Officer McMillion plainly states that diversity, equity, and inclusion, is designed to achieve a “cultural shift” within the nations chief domestic law enforcement agency.
“Here at the FBI, we're literally looking at doing a cultural shift, to change where diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility is literally within our DNA… [The FBI] director has three priority initiatives and I'm so happy that diversity is one of them, which also includes elements of equity, inclusion and accessibility. We're doing things particularly in the area of recruitment …”
All DEI entities have one outwardly stated goal: increase the demographic representation of “historically marginalized” identity groups within its host institution. DEI officers like the FBI’s Scott McMillion, seek to accomplish this goal by imbedding politically motivated tenets via so called “antiracist” policies and practices, and always with a focus those on recruitment and hiring. While this sounds like a noble goal, it becomes less so when you realize that accomplishing this goal requires active identity-based discrimination in the hiring process. It becomes even less noble when you realize that this discrimination is actually designed to identify and weed out those who do not espouse a critical race theory/radical gender theory inspired, partisan political ideology. This ideology, in the context of the FBI, now requires those who recruit and hire in the FBI, to prioritize identity groups that Democrat’s themselves stereotype as most likely to hold left leaning DNC political values, and apply this stereotyping as a primary metric for choosing new agents and leaders within the Bureau.
When you consider DEI’s critical race theory roots, combined with Donald Trumps ban of CRT in 2020, it becomes obvious why President Biden’s Justice Department and FBI would have no problem going after the former president who sought to ban DEI polices and practices. DEI ideology actually requires that those true believers within FBI and the Justice Department do anything within their power to keep the “DNA” of the federal government pure of anyone that might dissent to DEI’s identity based, moralistic worldview.
DEI in the FBI was raised to exploit and weaponize a culture of identity politics, and the Trump raid is its coming of age moment.
This helps to explain why there's so few (in my estimation) FBI whistleblowers coming forth with knowledge of the Russia hoax, the Whitmer kidnapping hoax and the Jan 6 2021 oddities. How does one clear up a cancer that's spread throughout the body of the FBI , the DOJ and others?
Sorry, but I think you’ve gone off the rails on this one. Even if the FBI is totally overcome by wokeness, there is still the problem that Trump claimed to have returned documents that were still at his home. Do you excuse everything Trump has done and continues to do because you hate wokeness? I don’t.