Undercover Grunter

Tonight's dish is a variation of the “no peek” casserole. Completely simple and easy to clean up after. Pork is roasted in a dish of rice mixed with 2 cans soup. Mixed together, sealed with foil and let it cook itself in secret! This leads an interesting chapter of LGBT history and the governments intelligence agency. Be sure to read the short article after the recipe.

If you like, stand in the soup aisle and pick your favorite soups for this dish. Possibly use chicken breasts if you wish. Pick, seal and bake, it is just that easy.

Ingredients:

2 pork chops (1.5 – 2 lbs.) or pork steaks

Salt & pepper

2-3 tablespoons vegetable oil

1 can Condensed Cream of Mushroom Soup

1 can beef broth

1 cup uncooked long-grain rice

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees

Season the chops liberally with salt and pepper. Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Brown chops on each side (do not cook through – just sear the chops on each side about 3 minutes per side).

Mix the can of soup, a can full of beef broth and rice to a 13x9 baking dish then stir to combine. Arrange browned pork on top of rice in a single layer.

 

Cover dish tightly with aluminum foil and bake at 375 degrees for one hour.

What is great is the fact you can just about any type of condensed soup if you make sure to use the proper wet vs dry ratio to ensure the rice cooks properly. One cup of rice requires two cans soup. You can also add frozen, canned or sauteed veggies to make them healthier or you can add your favorite blend of spices. You can use just about any meat, chicken, chops or turkey. The MOST important thing to remember is using enough liquid so the rice cooks to a creamy consistency and to COVER it TIGHTLY for at least 1 hour.

Check with instant read thermometer to reach 145 degrees.

Remove from oven and then start microwaving a green vegetable side dish. This resting period is the secret to a fantastic dish.

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Gay in the Government Intelligence Community

In 1953, President Dwight Eisenhower signed an executive order directing federal agencies to investigate employees who might pose security risks. “Sexual perversion,” code for homosexuality, was considered a fireable offense. An estimated 10,000 gay men and women lost their jobs.

To be openly gay or lesbian, according to the twisted official logic, was presumed to be so shameful that employees would do anything to keep their dark secret, including handing over classified information to a foreign adversary. As a matter of policy, the federal government could deny or revoke a security clearance based on someone’s sexual orientation.

Sen. Joseph McCarthy hunted down “sex perverts” in every corner of the national security apparatus. “Homosexuals must not be handling top secret material,” McCarthy declared. Homosexuality was both a moral offense and a gateway to treason.

Much of McCarthy’s political influence at the time came not from his rampage against suspected communists—for which he is most remembered—but from persecuting gays and lesbians, some of whom were driven to suicide.

Over 40 years latter, in August 1995, President Bill Clinton issued a new executive order, effectively reversing Eisenhower’s policy. “No inference concerning the standards” for employment, it said, “may be raised solely on the basis of the sexual orientation of the employee.” A security clearance couldn’t be denied, or revoked, on those grounds.

But it took another decade before those people truly believed they were safe and welcome. Discrimination against gays and lesbians didn’t suddenly cease.

That Executive Order sparked the push for diversity and inclusion inside the CIA and inspired three courageous LGBT officers to found ANGLE in 1996. The officers, two lesbians and a transgender woman within the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology, wanted to establish a working environment that was equitable to all employees regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
 

At the CIA, the order was treated cautiously. A future administration can rescind Clinton’s order. And the agency can, technically, choose not to follow it. Owing to its national security mission, the CIA is considered an “excepted service,” meaning that it doesn’t have to adhere to the same employment rules and regulations that govern hiring and firing most federal employees. The courts have given the intelligence community permission to do just that.

Then the 9/11 attacks led to a surge in new applications—more than 150,000 in the days following the attacks. A hiring bonanza was on, across the intelligence community. The new recruits were overwhelmingly young, drawn from a generation that had few, if any, of the hangups about sexual orientation as their predecessors.

By 2007, those post-9/11 recruits made up an astonishing 35 percent of the total workforce of all intelligence agencies. The young were taking over.

One openly gay senior officer who joined the CIA in 1985, said that in the early 2000s new recruits were already out of the closet. “That was amazing.”

This year marks the 23nd anniversary of the founding of ANGLE, CIA’s Agency Resource Group for LGBT employees.
Throughout the years, ANGLE collaborated with other Agency employee resource groups and worked with policy offices. They have educated the workforce on LGBT issues and concerns. In addition, ANGLE worked closely with community outreach efforts to LGBT professional groups and organizations outside the CIA to share their experiences.
ANGLE was also instrumental in creating IC Pride, a resource group made up of members from agencies across the Intelligence Community (IC).

ANGLE today has hundreds of members and is one of the longest-standing employee resource groups in the IC.

This last June, the CIA hosted a series of events, panels, and activities celebrating the progress toward equality for members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.

Major General (MG) Tammy Smith, the highest ranking and first openly gay general in US history gave a key note address. CIA Director Haspel described MG Smith, saying, “She refused to give in to discrimination, stayed riveted on her goals, and proceeded to blaze a trail that will go down in the history books. Today, Major General Smith is widely recognized as a pioneer in helping LGBT men and women to fully contribute—and fully belong—to the Army family.”

This event was one of several CIA activities celebrating Pride Month, including participation in the Capital DC Pride Festival and the 7th annual IC Pride Summit, of which CIA was a founder. Whether you are a Major General in the US Army, an intelligence officer at CIA, or an athlete swimmer at Harvard University, everyone has something unique to contribute and can lead from wherever they may be.