Posted on 02/20/2025 2:23:59 PM PST by DFG
The C.I.A. has moved to dismiss an unspecified number of officers who were working on recruiting and diversity issues, according to former officials, in what would be one of the largest mass firings in the agency’s history.
The possible purge of the officers comes as the agency moves to comply with the spirit of President Trump’s executive order banning efforts to diversify the federal work force.
The C.I.A. last conducted a large-scale firing in 1977, when President Jimmy Carter ordered the agency to move away from covert action. Stansfield Turner, the C.I.A. director at the time, moved to fire 198 officers involved in clandestine action. But even that downsizing was done with some care, sparing some people who were close to retirement age.
Kevin Carroll, a former C.I.A. officer and a lawyer representing 21 intelligence officers who have sued to stop the new firings, said about 51 officers working in diversity and recruiting were having their positions reviewed.
The C.I.A. on Friday began calling in officers who had been put on administrative leave and telling them to resign or be fired, but a federal court soon halted that action. A judge in the Eastern District of Virginia is scheduled to hold a hearing on Monday to consider a temporary restraining order against the agency.
While presidents often order policy changes at the agency, it is rare for career officers who carried out the priorities of a previous administration to be fired, the former officials said. Former President Barack Obama, for example, ended the C.I.A. interrogation program started under former President George W. Bush but did not fire the officers accused of torturing Al Qaeda prisoners.
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“Intelligence” and bureaucracy are oxymorons.
The bigger the CIA gets, the dumber it gets.
” with the spirit of President Trump’s executive order banning efforts to diversify the federal work force”
No slant here.
They are done once their clearances are pulled. No unlimited access even to the parking lots. It’s Trump’s call there.
The biggest problem is analysts and not operatives. The analysts, who have never learned tradecraft, run the agency.
Fixed it.
“who were working on recruiting and diversity issues,”
O misread, or correctly read as the case may be, that as “Recruiting diversity issues”.
Because they do tend to be issues.
Perfect! We need all that bright, young talent that the CIA thought was good enough for them, out in the marketplace. DJT, bringing the best and brightest!
And now for the good news...........
The CIA has moved to dismiss an unspecified number of officers who were working on recruiting and DEI issues, in what would be one of the largest mass firings in the agency’s history.
While presidents often order policy changes at the agency, it is rare for career officers who carried out the priorities of a previous administration to be fired.
0n Friday the agency began calling in officers who had been put on administrative leave and telling them to resign or be fired, but it was halted and a judge in the Eastern District of Virginia is scheduled to hold a hearing on Monday to consider a temporary restraining order against the agency.
Why do I have the feeling they are going under cover and reforming elsewhere?
He doesn’t look too worried.
The judges are interfering in legal actions by the president.
Yay!
Winning!!!
Oh no, IS THE ENTIRE CAST OF ‘THE VIEW’ GOING TO GET PINK SLIPS ???!!!!
(and no jokes about Joy Behar in a pink slip, please)
Cancelled. Idiots. Adios :)
And the hits just keep on coming!
Down to zero works for me. DIA is the only lawful agency doing spywork.
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