side of who s actually selected. so that s part of it. heying men and women apply, or women mostly selected. black and whites apply, minorities mostly selected, that kind of thing? well, that particular graph is a snapshot of one bureau, latin america in 20 20, but it does illustrate the point there s no way you end up with one-third of the bidders being women and two-thirds of the winners being women without somebody putting their foot on the scale. that s just one example of the positive discrimination at the state department in certain jobs. pete: what s the impact? our state department is supposed to set our foreign policy, represent us around the globe. what does it mean to us, the taxpayer withs, to those they re representing, how does it impact us? we should expect to have an elite in the foreign service, and there are certain professions that you just have to have free and fair competition and end up with people best able to do the job. in the end, it doesn t matter if all
significant minority, were trying to undermine his agenda and possibly would undermine the agenda the of a conservative with strong views. and that s not in the interests of the united states with. the civil servants are supposed to be there to carry out the will of the president. pete: no doubt. well, simon, thanks for the report, for highlighting this for us. thanks for having me. pete: and simon points out there are institutions like the state department that should be a her tock the rah city, and there s another one like the defense department that should be too. the same thing is plague out, and later in the program i m going to share an excerpt from the book, i looked up the word obsession inside my book and found a very similar track. the defense department is obsessed with dei. what does that mean? you re pushing priorities of certain people into certain places not based on meritocracy which has a corrosive effect. so the book is the war on warriors. it comes out tuesday, j
The State Department’s international cyber strategy is aimed at setting goals for the US in leading on cyber norms at the United Nations, on AI issues and in countering China.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Guatemala on Tuesday to lead a delegation to the a ministerial meeting of the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection, the State Department said on Sunday. Blinken will meet with Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo and other leaders to discuss enforcement, migration management and refugee integration, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement.