• What Happened: A declassified and retracted 2021 Biden CIA assessment titled "Women Advancing White Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremist Radicalization and Recruitment" identified motherhood and homemaking as indicators of white extremism.
  • Why It Matters: The document was produced the same week the Biden DOJ began investigating parents at school board meetings as domestic terrorists. America First Legal called it "the Biden administration's war on parents."
  • Bottom Line: Biden's CIA was not protecting America. It was profiling it.

The document is real. It is 11 pages long. It was produced by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States on October 6, 2021. And it treated motherhood as a terrorism threat.

The assessment, titled "Women Advancing White Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremist Radicalization and Recruitment," was recently declassified and released by the Trump administration before CIA Director John Ratcliffe retracted it in February as one of 19 Biden-era intelligence products he said "fall short of the high standards of impartiality that CIA must uphold."

"There is absolutely no room for bias in our work," Ratcliffe said, "and when we identify instances where analytic rigor has been compromised, we have a responsibility to correct the record."

The document opens by warning that female members of what it called the "white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremist" movement, or "white REMVE," were "taking on diverse roles to advance white REMVE goals, including the white REMVE view of traditional motherhood." One group flagged in the assessment, whose identity is redacted, "has lauded motherhood and homemaking as women's most important responsibility."

Read that again. A CIA intelligence assessment used the fact that a group praised motherhood and homemaking as a data point in building a violent extremism threat profile.

Conservative commentator Avery Daye, whose video breaking down the document racked up nearly 500,000 views on X, put it plainly: "They don't just hate women. They hate white women specifically."

The timing of the document's production is not a coincidence. It was released on October 6, 2021, the same week the National School Boards Association sent a letter to President Biden comparing parents protesting school board policies to domestic terrorists. The Biden Justice Department responded four days later with a memo directing the FBI to investigate those parents. The NSBA later retracted its letter and apologized. The FBI later rescinded its own related memo targeting "radical-traditional Catholics." But the CIA document stayed classified until now.

Gene Hamilton, president of America First Legal, the conservative legal group founded by Trump adviser Stephen Miller that first flagged the document publicly, captured what it represents. "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."

America First Legal called the assessment "the latest example of the Biden administration's war on parents," noting that "an agency with critical intelligence responsibilities was spending its resources targeting women promoting motherhood."

The document also warned about families having more children, framing the desire for large families in the context of extremist ideology. It invented the category of "white REMVE-sympathetic" to describe people who, by the document's own admission, had not advocated or committed any violence at all, but whose views on family, culture, and tradition made them worth watching.

CIA Director Ratcliffe has now formally retracted the assessment and 18 others like it, calling them products of bias rather than intelligence. The document is a matter of public record.

Stay-at-home moms were not a national security threat. They were a political target. Now everyone knows it.