Texas Senator Ted Cruz took aim at the National Security Agency (NSA) over a recently leaked diversity-laden glossary that incorporates tenets of critical race theory and other radical gender ideology.
Cruz took the NSA to task in a Monday episode of his podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
“This stuff is nonsense, it is garbage, it is poison," Cruz said of language within the NSA's 34-page glossary. "Do you know what it isn’t? National security."
The Texas senator suggested the NSA's focus on gender theory was a distraction from actual national security threats.
“How come nobody at the NSA got signals intelligence on Hamas planning the biggest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust on October 7th?" Cruz asked. "Maybe because instead, they were focused not only on Critical Race Theory, but also queer theory."
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“Apparently, they think that founding of land that is now the United States is an example of ‘oppressive governance’ and ‘settler colonialism,’" Cruz added in reference to one of the terms found in the NSA's glossary.
"The CBP is not allowed to secure the border because they're having to figure out the sexual orientation of human traffickers and drug traffickers instead of stopping them and arresting them," Cruz said, "and now the NSA is not looking for terrorists because they’re busy worrying about settler colonialism and queer theory.”
Cruz said the NSA was being influenced by the Biden administration's "obsession" with "leftist woke politics" and asserted, "There is nothing about this that is national security."
Last week, The Daily Wire reported on the leaked "diversity glossary" from the NSA which blames "White Europeans" for "settler colonialism," "white fragility," and "transmisogyny."
The glossary also promotes the use of gender-neutral pronouns including "ze" and "zir."
Republicans Reps. Mike Waltz from Florida and Jim Banks from Indiana wrote a letter to NSA Director Paul Nakasone regarding the glossary.
“Many of these definitions, when not incoherent, are deeply troubling,” they wrote. “This document raises questions about NSA’s hiring and contracting processes that deserve answers.”
"We understand NSA believes that an employee posted this glossary to an internal server without authorization and was taken down once it was discovered," the letter continued. "As a whole, it prompts these and other questions that as a members of the House Armed Services Committee and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence need answered in order to conduct oversight and ensure NSA is focused on countering threats to U.S. interests."
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz also commented on the glossary and warned of ideological capture of the intelligence community.
“We need to put an end to it before we figure out what it looks like when the CRT regime is latched to the most exquisite spying and surveillance tools that have ever existed on the planet,” Gaetz said.
