CIA forges unity in diversity: everybody hates their ‘woke’ recruitment ad

A social media campaign featuring a self-described cisgender millennial Latin intelligence officer drew ire from right and left

In its long and colourful history, US intelligence has come in for a lot of criticism, for engineering coups, drug trafficking and torture, but just over 100 days into the Biden administration it faces a new charge no one saw coming: is the CIA just too woke?

A social media campaign, Humans of CIA, aimed at boosting diversity at the agency has united critics on the right and left in a moment of shared derision, albeit for different reasons.