WEST POINT: DEI Office Given Brand New Name, Same Old Purpose … Someone Tell Pete Hegseth
Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense for information regarding the rebranding of West Point’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) office to “Office of Engagement and Retention” (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Defense (No. 1:24-cv-02941)).
The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the United States Military Academy at West Point (a component of the Defense Department) failed to respond to an August 28, 2024, FOIA request for:
All documents related to the renaming of and/or elimination of West Point’s “Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunity” (ODIEO).
All documents related to the creation of West Point’s “Office of Engagement and Retention.”
All emails related to the matters addressed in Bullets 1 and 2 sent to and from the following USMA officials: Superintendent LTG Steve Gilland, Dean BG Shane Reeves, Commandant BG R.J. Garcia, and Chief Diversity Officer Lisa Benitez. —Judicial Watch
Between DOGE and Pete Hegseth, we can be sure that this department — in whatever name it calls itself — will no longer be diverting cash from the primary priority of making the US armed forces into a maximally lethal fighting force.
The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the United States Military Academy at West Point (a component of the Defense Department) failed to respond to an August 28, 2024, FOIA request for:
All documents related to the renaming of and/or elimination of West Point’s “Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunity” (ODIEO).
All documents related to the creation of West Point’s “Office of Engagement and Retention.”
All emails related to the matters addressed in Bullets 1 and 2 sent to and from the following USMA officials: Superintendent LTG Steve Gilland, Dean BG Shane Reeves, Commandant BG R.J. Garcia, and Chief Diversity Officer Lisa Benitez. —Judicial Watch
Between DOGE and Pete Hegseth, we can be sure that this department — in whatever name it calls itself — will no longer be diverting cash from the primary priority of making the US armed forces into a maximally lethal fighting force.
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