The New York Instances reported on Friday that Vice President Kamala Harris critiqued intelligence stories for a way they described feminine leaders of different nations.
“Ms. Harris, the first woman to hold her office, ordered up a review that scrutinized multiple years of briefing reports from various intelligence agencies, looking for possible gender bias,” the authors wrote within the Instances.
Harris’ consideration to the briefing stories stemmed from her being “struck by the way two foreign leaders were described.”
After officers scrutinized the stories, they discovered “some questionable word choices but no widespread pattern,” the Instances reported, citing a senior intelligence official who requested anonymity to debate the overview.
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Intelligence officers had been prompted so as to add “a new training class for analysts on how to judge and assess female foreign leaders,” the Instances wrote.
Extra particularly, the Instances reported that the “class now teaches intelligence analysts how to better assess the context in which women leaders operate and the possible impact of gender on their career paths, decision-making and policy choices, according to a U.S. official.”
“The episode proved to be a preview of Ms. Harris’s priorities. The vice president put questions about gender and race at the center of many of the policy discussions in her office, aides and former administration officials said,” the Instances reported.
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to reporters in Houston, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (AP Photograph/Susan Walsh)
Harris reportedly caught the eye of Avril Haines, the primary feminine director of nationwide intelligence within the US, when the Democratic presidential nominee shared concern about attainable gender bias in briefing stories within the intelligence neighborhood.
Intelligence officers are actually often checking for potential gender bias, a senior official informed the Instances. Moreover, intelligence officers shared with the Instances that Harris needed extra intelligence reporting on how gender inequalities in numerous nations weaken their nationwide safety.
“She paid particular attention to Africa, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean — regions that have been overlooked in mainstream foreign-policy making, one of them said,” intelligence officers informed the Instances.
The Harris marketing campaign nor Biden administration officers responded to a request for remark.
The knowledge shared by intelligence officers was a part of the Instances’ report on Harris being silent on her coverage file as she “appeals to moderate voters and tries to defy Donald J. Trump’s claims that she represents ‘the radical left.'”
The Instances defined additional that Harris’ previous file in combating gender bias in intelligence companies, selling “equity” within the authorities’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, and different measures “aimed at systemic disparities” haven’t been touted on the marketing campaign path.
“While Ms. Harris’s allies describe this as a defining feature of her vice presidency — one that separates her from her predecessors, including Democrats — she is not running on this part of her record,” the Instances reported.
Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer stand collectively on the stage surrounded by supporters at a marketing campaign rally on the Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan, August 7, 2024. (Photograph by Amy Lemus/NurPhoto through Getty Pictures)
“She rarely talks explicitly about how she would use government to address racism and sexism — and only sparingly mentions her own status as potentially the first woman, first Asian American and first Black woman to hold the presidency.”
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A former aide to the vice chairman informed the Instances that Harris “was always interested in gender.”
“We all knew it was really important to her, so we would proactively add that to her briefings. She didn’t have to ask for it,” mentioned the aide, who requested anonymity.
Whereas her file could recommend that Harris is targeted on girls and minorities, her aides preserve that the vice chairman is anxious about any “overlooked group, including low-income Americans of any race or ethnicity.”
Lots of Harris’ previous positions have been put within the highlight since she ascended to the highest of the ticket after President Biden withdrew from the presidential race. (AP Photograph/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Lots of Harris’ previous positions have been put within the highlight since she ascended to the highest of the ticket after President Biden withdrew from the presidential race.
For instance, Harris supported taxpayer-funded surgical procedure for trans prisoners and unlawful immigrants when responding to a questionnaire carried out by the American Civil Liberties Union.
