When I was assigned to DIA a few years back, I worked in one of the most secure facilities in the country. Oath Keeper recruiting fliers kept on showing up in the break rooms. When I reported it, leadership shrugged and told me it was nothing to worry about. 1/1
Same leadership also tolerated several sexual harassers to the point where there were certain spaces where young women analysts asked men they trusted to escort them. Same leadership who couldn't understand why we were hemorrhaging young talent. 2/2
Same leadership who tolerated our civilian senior intelligence officer gleefully declaring out loud in our spaces before looming government shutdown that all the liberals would riot when the welfare checks stopped flowing and conservatives would gun them down in the streets. 3/3
Same leadership who negatively counseled me for telling him equally as loud to shut the fuck up, and said that he didn't really mean it and I was being too sensitive. 4/4
Same leadership who couldn't comprehend why I curtailed my assignment and high tailed it to CENTCOM. I loved the important work I was doing and some of the people I worked with. But it was the most toxic place I've ever seen. 5/5
So if you think we don't have a deeply rooted problem, you're wrong. Oh and if you're wondering who the director of DIA was, for at least part of that time, you'd be correct in assuming it was Flynn. 6/6
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