Intel Agencies Seek Help Recruiting Immigrants
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The U.S. is its own worst enemy when it comes to the desperately important task of recruiting immigrants as spies, analysts and translators in the war on terror, new Americans are telling intelligence officials. The government’s policies raise suspicions and fear in the immigrants’ home countries and disturb potential recruits here who might otherwise want to help.
The U.S. knows it needs the help. At the heart of a Friday summit with immigrant groups was a stark reality: The intelligence agencies lack people who can speak the languages that are needed most, like Arabic, Farsi and Pashtu. More importantly, the agencies lack people with the cultural awareness that allows them to grasp the nuances embedded in dialect, body language and even street graffiti.
At the suburban Virginia summit, not far from the CIA and National Counterterrorism Center, officials gathered more than a dozen representatives of recent immigrant and other ethnic groups to get their recruiting assistance.
“We are going to ask you to open up your communities to us,” said Ronald Sanders, an assistant national intelligence director, and the son of an Egyptian immigrant mother.
The officials got an earful in return—about immigration and hiring rules and foreign policies that make life harder in immigrants’ old countries. The intelligence agencies’ own practices also came under criticism: extraordinary rendition, holding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, harsh interrogation practices that some say amount to torture.
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One major need now is for people who can speak the languages most needed in the anti-terror fight. The children of immigrants, even if they don’t grow up speaking their parents’ language, can learn it to the required level of proficiency in 16 weeks. It takes people without that cultural heritage about 63 weeks, according to Jean AbiNader, a government cultural trainer with IdeaCom. Inc.
And then there are cultural matters as well. Immigrants and their children don’t need to learn these things; they can teach them.
The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are collaborating on a summer internship program to begin to tap that expertise. Twenty college students are coming to Washington, D.C. for 10 weeks. They will get free Arabic classes in the morning at George Washington University and spend the afternoons working in the agencies’ intelligence offices.
“We need these people, their expertise, their understanding of culture, of language. We don’t have it today and it is a great deficiency,” Allen said. “This will be an enormous augmentation.”
U.S. policies have until recently forbidden recruitment of first-generation Americans who have direct family ties abroad, a practice that began after World War II, despite the fact that many code breakers in that conflict were not born in America, said National Intelligence Director Michael McConnell.
New rules drop that obstacle, he said. Still, the security clearance process can take 12 to 18 months for a citizen without close ties abroad. It can go on for years for children of recent immigrants. McConnell wants to shorten that to 60 days.
The agencies will try to contain the risk of giving people with close foreign associations access to top secret information by increasing the scrutiny that all employees get once they are cleared, a practice known as life cycle monitoring.
McConnell told the meeting of immigrant community leaders that he is increasing sensitivity training for the 100,000 employees of the intelligence agencies.
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(Posted on May 16, 2008)
Comments
With the non-whites getting more militant and more numerous, it’s necessary to have agents who can walk among them unnoticed.
Such is the way of the multicultural utopia on its way to a diverse paradise of gated communities, with armed guards and rabble ruling the streets at night.
Posted by at 6:47 PM on May 16
“McConnell told the meeting of immigrant community leaders that he is increasing sensitivity training for the 100,000 employees of the intelligence agencies.”
Well, there is the unchallenged cherry on the cake, of what was the expected “sunshine and lollypops” theme of this rather gooey piece of “reporting.”
I wonder, just how the heck we beat Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan in World War II, without being trained to be “sensitive” to the needs of their recent immigrants to our country? How was it, that without their folkways and norms fully grasped by the Allies in general and the USA in particular, that we defeated these predatory rivals?
My God, we were so oafish as to intern many of those recent immigrants (including Italians and Germans, a fact often forgotten) in special camps. We also let it be known, that we fully intended to smash into rubble (and subsequently did so) their home countries.
So how is it, that we achieved victory in 1945 sans the “enriching” diversity and knowledge of the “other” that was in our midst?
I guess a rather cheeky little boy and a singing fat man had the answers, but I am of course being a fossilized T-Rex here—LOL—In Utter Abject Disgust.
And of course, as always, God help us all!
Posted by John PM at 9:12 PM on May 16
“McConnell told the meeting of immigrant community leaders that he is increasing sensitivity training for the 100,000 employees of the intelligence agencies.”
Where would we be without good ol’ multiculturalism and political correctness? There is a good read for not allowing 1st generation “Americans” into the intelligence community. They are security risks. We have 2nd and 3rd generation “Americans” who speak with affection for the “old country” and contempt for America and then can’t figure out why we Americans don’t accept them!
Posted by enoughalready at 10:24 PM on May 16
It would be nice to have people from terrorist countries on our side, giving us information on terrorists. Get Real! They will be few and far between! Their loyalties are with the terrorists, and they will be glad to be recruited and give us false information, use their new position to make money and get information from us to give to the countries where their true loyalty lies.
Posted by at 7:02 AM on May 17
If we didn’t put our noses in the business of these Moslem countries, and didn’t bring their people into our country, we wouldn’t have to concern ourselves with their cultural nuances.
And National Intelligence Director Michael McConnel knows that having German Jews work on breaking German codes did not pose a security risk. The comparison with 21st century invaders is fraudulent. A Moslem with an ipod and a cell phone is still a foreigner, who every day is told by the MSM that White people are evil, and has every reason to hate us.
Posted by Schoolteacher at 1:43 PM on May 17
The intelligence agencies lack people who can speak the languages that are needed most, like Arabic, Farsi and Pashtu.
If they really need people who can speak these languages, they can stimulate the economy and create jobs by teaching Americans these languages. All of these languages are taught in our major universities, and believe it or not, many American students are gifted with the ability to pick up languages very quickly. I should know; I teach foreign languages at a state university where Farsi and Arabic speaking students are quite numerous.
The languages are also taught by companies that specialze in training English-speaking employees to do business overseas.
They can use my tax money for this rather than for importing terrorist.
Posted by SpeakEZ at 2:56 PM on May 17
This reminds me of the “green brief” filed on behalf of quite a number of our military leaders in the University of Michigan Affirmative action case a number of years ago. This is from an article publishes in the Santa Clara Advocate.
The Justices though were more concerned with the “green brief,” the amicus brief written by Carter Phillips on behalf of a venerable who’s who of respected military leaders. The “generals’ brief” argued that an integrated officer corps was necessary for national security and such integration is achieved through the use of affirmative action.
Some of the “respected” military leaders were wesley k clark, norman schwartzkopf, hugh shelton, and anthony zinni. There were actually quite a few more as well approxiamately 25.
Google some of them and check out some of their post retirement business activities with various international banks and corporations.
Posted by Liberty at 7:50 PM on May 17
“In our culture it is looked down on to be a … spy,” added Humira Noorestani, whose family is from Afghanistan.”
It looks like the new “diversity-friendly” CIA is headed the same way as the US Army; bogged down in Babylon, and taking orders from the local Stone Age tribesmen.
I love it.
Posted by Marco Polo at 11:00 PM on May 18
It sounds like the agency “IS” short on intelligence, relaxing all the requirements etc. I dare say Hussein could not qualify, what with all his radical associations. His most recent Freudian slip went like this: “We have traveled all over the United States in this campaign, we have been in I guess about 57 states in all. We still have one to go and, they haven’t let me go to Alaska, or Hawaii yet”. This is as nearly word for word as I can recall. I heard it on Hannity, and absolutely no one else in the media has, as far as I know, picked up on it. Some one called in and said something about 57 Arab states?
Posted by The Old Sage at 12:51 AM on May 19
Doesn’t the CIA know that “race” is a meaningless social construct; that cultural practices are relative and therefore also meaningless, and that anyone who denies this or claims to have noticed “real” differences is a big fat Hitler face?
Jiminy Cricket! I thought everyone knew that.
You know, if they would just allow us Whiteness Experts to explain this to them, the CIA could then teach it to the people they want to spy on, and everything would be a lot easier.
Sometimes it’s tough being this enlightened.
Posted by Whiteness Expert at 4:34 PM on May 19
Politically correct intelligence agency.
Another instance where reality and parody meet head-on.
Soon the Catholic mass will included readings from the Quran. (Maybe I shouldn’t have written that last line. Someone might think it’s a good idea).
Posted by sbuffalonative at 10:36 PM on May 19