After the publication of the House Committee on the Judiciary’s report on the effects of DEI policy at the FBI, Assistant Director of the FBI’s Training Division, Jaqueline Maguire, penned a rebuttal. Published on the FBI’s official website, Maguire said some things that, up until very recently, were true of the FBI’s hiring process. Historically, the FBI has sought America’s best and brightest, seeking the most competitive candidates to join in the mission of the world’s premiere law enforcement and intelligence agency.
Maguire says that things have indeed changed, but we all know the changes have not been for the better.
Maguire cites statistics from 2022-23, which documents the graduation of nearly 2,000 new agents from the FBI academy—individuals which were selected from a pool of 48,000 applicants. Getting a seat at the FBI academy is an achievement few are able to realize. But, that is of small comfort to an onlooking population of citizens, and retired and current agents, who have all witnessed the undeniably atrocious antics of people like Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe, and Lisa Page—a trio who have become emblematic of personal bias and government weaponization.
But, highlighting how difficult it is to become an FBI agent only underscores how critical it is to ensure that the people who find those seats have been selected on the basis of merit, not gender, race, or worse, sexual proclivity.
At least for now, the majority of FBI agents continue to work diligently to preserve civil liberties while aggressively pursuing the criminals who threaten American citizens and our national security — whether in the form of child predators, agents of foreign powers, or rabid terrorists bent on slaughter and destruction. The proof of that statement lies in the bold and powerful eyewitness testimony of an alliance of retired, active-duty FBI Special Agents, and analysts who represent 23 credibly documented instances of DEI policy adversely impacting recruitment, hiring, training, and job performance. The House report is their 95 Theses.
The good men and women of the FBI need our support in combating DEI, and the executive/structural problems that create an environment in which politicization is permitted to exist. Painting the FBI workforce as completely corrupt is simply a lie, propagated by people motivated primarily by personal animus.
The House report contradicts AD Maguire’s statements, and provides direct evidence rather than the AD’s pliable metrics. Maguire touts, “on average, more than 50% of the new agents came from a military or law enforcement background, approximately 48% had advanced degrees, and the average age was 29.”
What is far more illuminating are her statements like, “the last special agent class that graduated from Quantico was almost half women...” — that is precisely the kind of analysis that concerns Americans about DEI policy. Of what relevance is the sex of a candidate to any merit based selection process? It also begs the question which stymied a recent Supreme Court nominee: what is a woman?
Of course, the FBI needs women. Some of the most dedicated and intelligent agents I worked with were women. But, gender should not be allowed to be weaponized by a liberal, social justice warrior administration and reduced to a quota. And, that is precisely what DEI policy does.
Retired FBI Assistant Director of the Criminal Investigative Division, Chris Swecker, told Townhall, “My sources inside the FBI are telling me that DEI policy is definitely affecting hiring and training standards. My sources are consistent with the report [House Judiciary] of the onboard agents. Diversity is essential…but when you start making subjective exceptions based on requirements to reach certain [DEI] goals, that tends to dilute excellence.”
DEI is dragging the FBI into the identity politics morass, and just as military readiness and effectiveness has been degraded by DOD adoption of social experimentation policy, so will the FBI’s credibility and capability be further degraded by the steady infusion of wokesters sifted through the sieve of DEI policy.
DEI isn’t the only problem directly affecting recruitment and hiring at the FBI. The pervasive indoctrination taking place at institutions of higher learning, and the broad social acceptance of Marxist principles and social theory are polluting the stream at its source. The FBI, for better or worse, is a reflection of the people it serves. In a very real sense, the larger principle of, “people get the government they deserve,” can applied more specifically to the FBI.
The worst aspect of DEI policy is the catastrophic consequence of prioritizing the recruitment of men and women suffering from gender dysphoria, with the concomitant destabilizing and demoralizing effects on the FBI workforce. It’s almost as if the LGBTQ+ agenda were formulated by a foreign adversary, and deployed as an action program with the intent to disrupt investigations by encumbering resources, and distracting the agent workforce by obliterating sexual norms and imposing arbitrary standards of behavior in the workplace.
The divisive and obtuse matters involved in accommodating the proclivities of sexually confused employees will at first diminish and ultimately destroy the ability of the FBI to pursue its critical work. Administrative resources that would otherwise be allocated to supporting national security investigations will be wasted on efforts to integrate the caprice of individuals. The teamwork, which is just as fundamental to FBI culture as it is to professional football, cannot be sustained in an environment of identity obsession.
For example, how are biological males, who identify as female, to be integrated at the FBI academy with biological females in the shower facilities? How does that impact female agent morale? And, how can this not significantly tax the administrative structure, and degrade morale broadly when resources are diverted and arbitrary standards arise to create accommodations for purely psycho-sexual factors? Confusion and distrust will abound while social experimentation becomes an enterprise objective.
Regardless of AD Maguire’s protestations to the contrary, common sense and the eyewitness testimony of highly credible, subject matter experts aver that the Biden administration’s DEI policy is, and will continue to be, widely destructive.
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