TONIGHT ON THIS WEEK’S EPISODE OF HBO’S VEEP:
Paging through intelligence reports just weeks after she was sworn in as vice president, Kamala Harris was struck by the way two female foreign leaders were described. The reports used adjectives that, in her view, were rarely used to describe male leaders.
Ms. Harris, the first woman to hold her office, ordered up a review that scrutinized multiple years of briefing reports from various intelligence agencies, looking for possible gender bias.
The study found some questionable word choices but no widespread pattern, according to a senior intelligence official, one of five who requested anonymity to discuss the review. (None would disclose the words flagged by Ms. Harris because the reports were classified.)
Still, the exercise had an impact: Intelligence officials added a new training class for analysts on how to judge and assess female foreign leaders, according to another official.
The episode proved to be a preview of Ms. Harris’s priorities.
You said it, Gray Lady. As Zaid Jilani tweets, “Kamala Harris got access to intelligence reports and this is what she did? I feel like this is a parody of a liberal.