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Government Corruption

CIA's historic retraction of intel reports exposes political bias in Obama-Biden spy agencies

2026-02-21

[JustTheNews] From Beria to Biden: Pushing DEI to targeting protesting parents, and anti-Catholic bias to pushing the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, the U.S. intelligence community has -- in what may be a first -- started to back away from politicized stances in the Obama/Biden regime that sounded more like political dictats than intelligence analysis.

First there were parents flagged at school board meetings. Then it was Catholics who preferred the traditional Latin Mass who were targeted for scrutiny.

Now, the CIA's retraction of nineteen “politicized” intel reports on Friday — on the heels of the agency’s self-critique last year on its assessment of Trump-Russia collusion in 2016 — has put the sharpest light yet on the infection of political bias inside American spy agencies dating back to the Obama era.

HISTORIC RETRACTIONS: "NO ROOM FOR BIAS"
The CIA announced on Friday that it was retracting or revising nineteen different intelligence reports, dating from 2015 through 2023 — spanning the Obama administration, the first Trump presidency, and the Biden administration. The politicized assessments — many of them focused on DEI-related issues — included pronouncements by the CIA about white women, motherhood, violent extremism, LGBT issues, abortion, and others well beyond the remit of the agency's mission.

"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," Ratcliffe said Friday. "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.”

The CIA’s retractions on Friday are the latest examples of the politicized nature of the intelligence community over the past decade, including a Biden Justice Department memo aimed at parents protesting at school board meetings, an FBI memo aimed at traditionalist Catholics, an intelligence community assessment that sought to link Trump to Russia, and more.

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