The Biden administration identified motherhood and homemaking as forms of “white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism,” in what legal observers say is the latest revelation of the previous administration’s “war on parents.”
Recently released Central Intelligence Agency documents from 2021 indicate the agency was monitoring “women advancing white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremist radicalization and recruitment.”
America First Legal flagged the documents on X, noting they reveal “the top-to-bottom bias” at the CIA under former President Joe Biden.
The Trump administration recently retracted the assessment, along with others, noting “they did not meet the high standards the American people expect from CIA’s elite analytic workforce.”
“The intelligence products we released to the American people today – produced before my tenure as DCIA – fall short of the high standards of impartiality that CIA must uphold and do not reflect the expertise for which our analysts are renowned,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe said in a statement. “There is absolutely no room for bias in our work and when we identify instances where analytic rigor has been compromised, we have a responsibility to correct the record.”
Ratcliffe said by retracting the documents, the CIA was highlighting its commitment to be transparent with the public.
“An agency with critical intelligence responsibilities was spending its resources targeting women promoting motherhood,” AFL wrote on X. The now-retracted documents define white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremist actors as those who “‘‘may not openly advocate violence’ but instead amplify ‘narratives’ about ‘perceived threats’ from multiculturalism and globalization.”
Those actors include those who view motherhood and homemaking as “women’s most important responsibility,” the retracted documents indicate.
“Motherhood and homemaking may be added to the list of other everyday behaviors that made everyday Americans ‘radicalization suspects’ under the Biden administration,” AFL wrote. “The CIA intelligence assessment is just the latest example of the Biden Administration’s War on Parents, in addition to its other efforts like branding concerned parents as ‘domestic terrorists.’”
The legal group argued that by producing “biased intelligence products,” the Biden administration decreased the public’s trust in the federal government and credited President Donald Trump with “rightfully” retracting the documents.
“U.S. intelligence agencies exist to protect Americans – not target them,” it said.
The CIA did not return a request from The Lion for comment on the documents.
