Gil Cisneros will be leaving the Department of Defense months after being probed on Capitol Hill for his role in investigating former DEI chief Kelisa Wing.
Reps. Stefanik and Gaetz question the Pentagon's Gil Cisneros, March 23.
"I do agree that that is not acceptable. It's not condoned by… the Department of Defense," Cisneros said. , took over six months to determine that Wing would not face professional consequences. He also said – after the extended time of investigation – that he did not know what"caudacity" meant, leading to the ire of Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.
"You took six months to investigate one tweet. You didn't even figure out what the words meant?" Gaetz asked. During the hearing, Gaetz called Wing"the racist lady that works for you." "I have no idea," Cisneros said about the Pentagon listing him as the head of the investigation."We do not support racist tweets. We do not support racism."Despite the fact that the Pentagon did not take any actions against Wing, the unit she worked in was disbanded.
According to the email announcing the dissolved DEI unit, existing DEI specialists were placed into other units to further entrench a DEI agenda in every aspect of the Pentagon's schools. Wing maintained that her social media posts were not racist in a media interview.
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