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A Department of Homeland Security unit eliminated policies prohibiting personnel from conducting intelligence activities based solely on a person’s gender identity or sexual orientation.
The Office of Intelligence and Analysis posted an updated policy manual late last week that removes references to those characteristics in sections that set guardrails on gathering intelligence.
The revisions follow President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 directive to scrap policies and protections focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion across federal agencies.
9/11, fear, turrists, freedom fries, 'murica. Things in the early 2000s got weird.
I am deeply sorry to gen-z and younger. They will never know what the US was like before the stupid times. For them, this is normal.
I’m squarely millenial and I don’t even really know what it was like before the stupid times.
Imgaine if not everything and everywhere was 100% focused on tracking where you go who you talk to and what you do.
Like that. But with lo-res games.
I walked into Canada without any ID. Boarder guards asked “You American?” I answered yup and they waved me through.
From a Canadian perspective:
As a child (not even a teen), my friend and I would travel to the US alone, on a bus, with only our birth certificates and some hockey cards. We would walk to the arena and wait around to try to get autographs.
As a teen/20’s we would pile in a car, drive across the border to bars or see concerts or afterhours clubs.
There used to be 20,000 american kids every weekend coming across here because the drinking age is 19 vs 21 over there.
Also, selfies and cellphones didn’t exist yet.
I have vague memories of getting into Canada with a fake ID my Dad made when I was really young. 😁