West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is questioning the FBI’s recruitment, hiring and promotion practices, suggesting they present serious issues that may violate the nation’s non-discrimination laws.
The Attorney General penned a letter to the FBI’s associate deputy director on Monday, taking issue with how the organization, tasked with investigating federal crimes and threats to national security, has placed the Biden administration’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) requirements on top. This priority threatens to degrade the core values behind the Bureau’s recruitment, hiring and promotions efforts.
“Let me be clear: however you look at it, discrimination is wrong and has no place in our society. Race-conscious recruitment, hiring and promotion practices in the FBI only foster division and stereotypes,” Attorney General Morrisey said. “The FBI is the country’s top law enforcer, but it is no longer recruiting for the best and the brightest—recent revelations suggest the organization is abandoning its core principle of attracting the most-qualified candidates and instead hiring and advancing employees based on gender/sexual orientation and race.”
In the letter, the Attorney General described those practices as “outright racial balancing,” noting that the FBI has made diversity “an FBI core value.”
A couple months ago, many anonymous FBI whistleblowers filed a report with the House Judiciary Committee titled “Report on Alarming Trends in FBI Special Agent Recruitment and Selection.” The conclusion of that report indicated a number of “lower-quality candidates” rejected by other agencies are being recruited by the FBI to abide by Biden’s DEI push.
In the letter, the Attorney General posed a number of questions he requested the FBI to answer no later than April 18.
“I write in the hope that you can provide answers to real questions that the Bureau’s actions have generated,” Attorney General Morrisey said. “West Virginians—and the American people—deserve to know whether their government is following the laws it purports to enforce.”
".... Obviously a genuinely diverse workforce is desirable and valuable for many reasons. But the Bureau can't build a diverse organization by targeting protected traits like race or sex," the Attorney General continued. “Thousands of FBI employees and contractors live and work in West Virginia, and the policies the FBI uses to hire them directly affect this State and its residents.”
Original source can be found here.