CIA Yanks 19 Docs ‘Compromised’ By Leftist Activism, Including Threat Assessment Targeting ‘Traditional Motherhood’

 The CIA has recently retracted 19 intelligence documents found to promote leftist ideology, compromising the agency's standards for objectivity. This decision follows an independent review that identified issues in the documents' analyses and sources, which leaned towards left-wing activism.

• CIA Director John Ratcliffe ordered the retraction after a review revealed that the documents did not meet proper quality standards and encouraged a political bias.

• The reviewed documents supported leftist views, took stances on foreign political issues, and relied on sources from left-wing media and NGOs.

• Among the controversial documents, one called groups promoting traditional motherhood suspicious due to an increase in female participation.

• Another document raised alarms about possible increased births in countries like Egypt and Nigeria due to potential COVID-19 disruptions in contraceptive supplies, based on data from abortion rights organizations.

• A third document advocated for LGBT academic programs in North Africa and the Middle East, criticizing regional governments for their conservative stances as hindering U. S. support for LGBT rights.

• The decision to remove and revise these documents came after an audit by the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), which evaluated 300 intelligence analyses for compliance with CIA standards.

• The flawed documents’ authorship and whether they will face consequences remain unclear.

• One specific analysis linked women to “white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremist” groups, classifying female advocates of traditional motherhood as emerging threats based on limited reporting and open-source information.

• The document set forth claims about women using cooking and lifestyle topics to subtly promote extremist narratives.

The CIA's retraction of these documents emphasizes the agency's commitment to impartiality in intelligence and transparency. The revelations raise questions about the quality and political neutrality of past intelligence assessments conducted over several years. 

https://thefederalist.com/2026/02/20/cia-yanks-19-docs-compromised-by-leftist-activism-including-threat-assessment-targeting-traditional-motherhood/