And the people inside the government to whom the intelligence is provided have every right to trust the source. However, to us in the public, we don't know these people, and have zero reason to trust them, absent actual factual evidence. What, you wouldn't put it past them to lie all the sudden?
It seems like, to achieve diversity like this, especially in the Engineering team, you'd have to have a bias and preference to candidates that "increase diversity". How are you not passing on many people better qualified to do the job? To me, such a bias is, itself, discriminatory. Why judge candidates based on such shallow considerations as gender?