The CIA on Friday said that director John Ratcliffe had ordered the retraction or "substantive revision" of 19 intelligence assessments over the past decade that were deemed to be politically biased. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
The CIA release said the assessments were identified by the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, which did an independent review on hundreds of reports from the last decade, adding that the assessments "did not meet CIA and IC analytic tradecraft standards and failed to be independent of political consideration."
The agency said an internal review led by Deputy Director Michael Ellis "agreed that they did not meet the high standards the American people expect from CIA’s elite analytic workforce."
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The first of the three reports included in the release was titled "Women Advancing White Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremist Radicalization and Recruitment," and was published in October 2021, in the first year of the Biden administration.
It focused on women in groups overseas "that incite, facilitate or conduct violence because they believe that their perception of an idealized, white European ethnic identity is under attack from people who embody and support multiculturalism and globalization."
The second report was titled "Middle East-North Africa: LGBT Activists Under Pressure," and was released near the end of the Obama administration.
Cover page of a declassified CIA assessment on radicalized White women. (CIA)
A senior administration official who spoke to The New York Times on condition of anonymity said that most of the rest of the flagged assessments dealt with diversity, equity and inclusion.
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The Times added that former officials it spoke to both questioned the decision to declassify the three documents and the claims that the assessments were flawed, believing they just showed the policy priorities of past administrations.
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