As more women are leaving the workforce due to caregiving responsibilities, a Biden-era CIA report is revealing the administration’s concern that support for traditional motherhood and homemaking could be somehow linked to so-called “white extremism.” The 2021 report, entitled “Women Advancing White Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremist Radicalization and Recruitment,” was brought to light by Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s non-profit, America First Legal (AFL). “Newly released CIA documents reveal the Biden Administration identified ‘motherhood’ and ‘homemaking’ as indicators of ‘white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism’ (REMVE), the group noted on X.

AFL went on to note that, “The now-retracted CIA intelligence assessment defines ‘white REMVE-sympathetic’ actors as those who ‘may not openly advocate violence’ but instead amplify ‘narratives’ about ‘perceived threats’ from multiculturalism and globalization.” According to the assessment, such “narratives” included the promotion of traditional motherhood and homemaking as “women’s most important responsibility.” “We assess that female members have been emerging as key players of the transnational white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremist (REMVE) movement, taking on diverse roles to advance white REMVE goals—including the white REMVE view of traditional motherhood—and successfully participating in newer roles in propaganda and recruitment,” the assessment stated. Supporters of white REMVE goals reportedly pushed for having more white children as a way of turning back the tide of rising multiculturalism.

The AFL accused such assessments of being politically motivated, noting how an October 4 memo in 2021 had labeled parents expressing concerns at school board meetings as possible domestic terrorists. “This is what happens when woke ideology replaces actual threat-based intelligence collection and analysis. The Biden administration was obsessed with deconstructing our country,” AFL President Gene Hamilton told The Daily Signal. “Motherhood was suspect. Homemaking was suspect. Everyday Americans were suspect. Under the Biden administration, mainstream American life was turned into a threat profile. We should never forget how deep the rot went.”

CIA director John Ratcliffe retracted the assessment, along with 18 others, in February, claiming it fell “short of the high standards of impartiality that CIA must uphold.” “There is absolutely no room for bias in our work and when we identify instances where analytic rigor has been compromised, we have a responsibility to correct the record,” he stated.