Biden CIA listed 'motherhood and homemaking' in report about violent extremism

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Tuesday, March 24, 2026

The Central Intelligence Agency retracted a Biden-era internal document warning about female “racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists" that listed the prioritization of “motherhood and homemaking," raising the concern of a conservative legal group. 

In a thread posted to X last week, the legal organization America First Legal, founded by Trump adviser Stephen Miller in 2021, shared screenshots of a now-retracted intelligence assessment compiled during the Biden administration.

The document, titled “Women Advancing White Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists,” outlines concerns about women’s participation in “white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism.”

The intelligence assessment, published in October 2021, defines racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists as those “who incite, facilitate, or conduct violence because they believe that their perception of an idealized white European ethnic identity is under attack from people who embody and support multiculturalism and globalization.” While the document primarily focused on groups and individuals explicitly focused on race, it also suggested that support for traditional gender roles may constitute extremism.

“White REMVEs and their sympathizers have claimed in online posts that it is essential for white families to have as many biological children as possible to counter the rising birth rates among nonwhite populations; white REMVEs allege that the rise is a conspiracy, which they have termed the ‘great replacement,’ according to an Open Source Enterprise assessment,” the document stated.

The intelligence assessment contained a paragraph about a group that has been redacted, noting that “the group has lauded motherhood and homemaking as women’s most important responsibility.”

The document was one of 19 intelligence products that the CIA retracted in February on grounds of "bias."

"The intelligence products we released to the American people today — produced before my tenure as DCIA — fall short of the high standards of impartiality that CIA must uphold and do not reflect the expertise for which our analysts are renowned," CIA Director John Ratcliffe said in a statement.

"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. These actions underscore our commitment to transparency, accountability, and objective intelligence analysis. Our recent successes in Operation ABSOLUTE RESOLVE and Operation MIDNIGHT HAMMER exemplify our dedication to analytic excellence.”

America First Legal reacted to the intelligence assessment by commenting, “Motherhood and homemaking may be added to the list of other everyday behaviors that made everyday Americans ‘radicalization suspects’ under the Biden administration.”

“President Trump has rightfully retracted this Biden-era CIA intelligence assessment,” America First Legal wrote. “U.S. intelligence agencies exist to protect Americans — not target them.”

News about the reference to “motherhood and homemaking” in the now-retracted CIA document comes three years after the FBI’s Richmond Field Office faced criticism for circulating a memo putting “radical traditionalist Catholics” in the same category as racially and ethnically motivated domestic extremists during the Biden administration. The now-redacted memo was made public in early 2023 by former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin.

“RTCs are typically characterized by the rejection of the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) as a valid Church council; disdain for most of the popes elected since Vatican II, particularly Pope Francis and Pope John Paul II; and frequent adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT and white supremacist ideology,” the 2023 memo stated. The document clarified that “Vatican II took place from 1962–1965 and essentially shaped the modern Roman Rite Catholic Church.”

The 2023 memo identified the purpose of Vatican II as “to help the Church respond to global cultural changes in the aftermath of World War II,” noting that it “resulted in significant reforms to the liturgy, attitudes toward non-Christian religions, roles and responsibilities of the laity, views on religious freedom, etc.”

Although the document stressed that “Radical-traditionalist Catholics compose a small minority of overall Roman Catholic adherents and are separate and distinct from ‘traditionalist Catholics,’ who prefer the Traditional Latin Mass and pre-Vatican II teachings and traditions, but without the more extremist ideological beliefs and violent rhetoric,” the memo generated enough backlash that the FBI apologized and said it “does not meet the exacting standards of the FBI.”

“Upon learning of the document, FBI Headquarters quickly began taking action to remove the document from FBI systems and conduct a review of the basis for the document,” the FBI told The Daily Signal in a statement at the time. “The FBI is committed to sound analytic tradecraft and to investigating and preventing acts of violence and other crimes while upholding the constitutional rights of all Americans and will never conduct investigative activities or open an investigation based solely on First Amendment-protected activity.”

The FBI memo relied heavily on the Southern Poverty Law Center, which describes itself as an organization that “monitors hate groups and other extremists throughout the U.S. and exposes their activities to law enforcement agencies, the media and the public.” The SPLC has received criticism for labeling organizations and individuals who oppose same-sex marriage as hate groups.

Late last year, the Trump administration’s FBI cut ties with the SPLC. FBI Director Kash Patel justified the move as necessary, saying, “The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine.”