Address what the chapter calls woke culture in the intelligence agencies
What the document says“future IC leadership must address the widely promoted “woke” culture that has spread throughout the federal government”
The chapter names identity politics as part of what it is describing. It uses the term woke without defining it. The passage sits among recommendations on how a President should empower the Director of National Intelligence to lead the intelligence agencies.
What the document actually says“future IC leadership must address the widely promoted “woke” culture that has spread throughout the federal government”
The people leading these agencies must deal with woke culture inside them.
The book says a way of thinking has spread through government. It calls it woke. It does not say exactly what that means. It says intelligence leaders must deal with it.
Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing
2025-01-20 · 90 FR 8339
Executive Order 14151 directs every agency head to terminate, within 60 days and to the maximum extent allowed by law, all diversity, equity and inclusion offices and positions, all equity action plans and equity related grants and contracts, and all such performance requirements, and bars those factors from federal employment practices and performance reviews. Because it runs to the whole executive branch it reaches the intelligence agencies. The fit breaks down on aim and addressee. The order names no intelligence agency, is not directed at intelligence leadership, and closes offices, positions and programs rather than addressing the culture the chapter describes, and the passage quoted sits among recommendations for empowering the Director of National Intelligence, which the order does not touch.
The order tells each agency to end all DEI offices, plans and grants in 60 days. It covers the whole branch, so spy agencies fall under it. But no spy agency is named, and it is not aimed at spy chiefs. It shuts offices and programs. It does not touch the culture the book describes.
8 agency rules
- Medicare Program; Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals (IPPS) and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Rates; Changes to the FY 2025 IPPS Rates Due to Court Decision; Requirements for Quality Programs; and Other Policy Changes; Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Electronic Prescribing, Real-Time Prescription Benefit and Electronic Prior AuthorizationHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of the Secretary · August 4, 2025
- Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise in Airport Concessions Program Implementation ModificationsTransportation Department · October 3, 2025
- Reissuance and Modification of Nationwide PermitsDefense Department, Engineers Corps · January 8, 2026
- Combating Gender Ideology in Foreign AssistanceState Department · January 27, 2026
- Combating Discriminatory Equity Ideology in Foreign Assistance RulesState Department · January 27, 2026
- Protecting Life in Foreign AssistanceState Department · January 27, 2026
- Medicare Program; Alternative Payment Model Updates and the Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) ModelHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · June 1, 2026
- Disadvantaged Business Enterprise and Airport Concession Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program RevisionsTransportation Department, Office of the Secretary · September 25, 2026
Each of these names the order above in its own summary, preamble or filing. That is a fact about the document, not a finding that it carries out this proposal: it is one step further away than the order is, and what it does about the proposal is a reading nobody has made here.