Nate Cornacchia, a retired Green Beret out of 1st SFG with a decade of experience in Army Special Forces and multiple deployments and extensive combat experience in Afghanistan breakdowns DEI initiatives and how they’re affecting the military, secret service and law enforcement organizations.
Secret Service equity director says DEI agenda is a ‘mission imperative,’ the ‘ultimate goal’ (Fox News)
DEI director Loucious Hires said when every Secret Service agent makes DEI a ‘mission imperative’ the agency will have ‘achieved our ultimate goal’
The director of equity at the Secret Service calls it a “mission imperative” and the “ultimate goal” to spread DEI within the agency, with the agency hosting seminars on “respectful use of pronouns.”
The executive director of the Secret Services’ Office of Equity Loucious Hires III discussed diversity, equity and inclusion, “a topic that is difficult for some to talk about,” on the official government podcast “Standing Post” in February 2023. The agency said it was striving to be the “gold standard” of DEI in a recruitment brochure that same year.
During the podcast, the equity director outlined how every action at the Secret Service should be informed by DEI and claimed the ideology makes the organization stronger. Every employee should consider how every action is reflective of equity, according to the director.
“Part of the things that we need to continue to do more is to be open and speak openly about diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility. And when every one of us within this agency can say this is a mission imperative, then we have achieved our ultimate goal,” he said during the podcast.
The Secret Service established a group of the agency’s “Game Changers” to form the “Inclusion Engagement Council” (IEC).
“The IEC’s collective duty is to help the Secret Service build, foster, create, and inspire a workforce where diversity and inclusion is not just ‘talked about’ — but demonstrated by all employees through ‘Every Action, Every Day,’” the Secret Service’s website says.
The IEC wants to go beyond pushing for equal employment opportunities, to change the culture “outside the agency’s mandated requirements.”
Andrew “Drew” Cannady, a supervisory attorney-advisor for the Secret Service’s Office of Chief Counsel, explained how the agency has been going to Pride events to recruit candidates and has seen more transgender people in the service as a result.
“We like every other organization. We benefit from diversity. And I actually am seeing more openly… trans recruits out of the training center, law enforcement recruits, which is great,” Cannady said on the agency podcast in 2022.
Cannady provides advice and counsel on personnel, human resources, security clearance and other employment law matters at the agency. He said the Secret Service has put on programming to educate its workforce on how to use pronouns. . . . . (read more)
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