Posted on 02/24/2025 10:36:52 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
Washington CNN —
The CIA is conducting a formal review to assess any potential damage from an unclassified email sent to the White House in early February that identified for possible layoffs some officers by first name and last initial and could’ve exposed the roles of people working undercover, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
That’s just one of multiple aftershocks from President Donald Trump’s push to take a jackhammer to the federal government – including the CIA. The administration’s efforts to cut the workforce and audit spending at the CIA and elsewhere threaten to jeopardize some of the government’s most sensitive work, current and former US officials familiar with internal deliberations say.
(snip)
And on the CIA’s 7th floor — home to top leadership — some officers are also quietly discussing how mass firings and the buyouts already offered to staff risk creating a group of disgruntled former employees who might be motivated to take what they know to a foreign intelligence service.
(snip)
There is also a concern that some US embassy positions that are actually filled by CIA officers under cover may now be at risk of being revealed — potentially angering the host nation and exposing companies or endangering CIA assets who are known to have met with past occupants of the role.
(snip)
When Bessent signed off on access for DOGE officials to the government’s payment system, intelligence officials immediately flagged that the system isn’t just used for Social Security and Medicaid payments. It’s also used to funnel intelligence community payments — including the CIA’s — whether through front companies or real commercial entities that the intelligence community partners with on sensitive programs.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
You think about the questions during Biden's tenure about who was 'running the country'--imho this CNN article might be a clue.
The CIA is and has been a joke with idiots running it since the days of the OSS.
The CIA needs to deliver a little more on full disclosure. Preferably while the culprits responsible are still alive.
CNN worried about CIA secrets! ROTFLMAO! When did they “flip”? What a bunch of Juggalos.
The secrets they are worried about are how corrupt they are.
Apparently, the CIA is not going to feed propaganda to PravdABC.
Hopefully those CIA officers don’t have a weird first name or a common first name that is spelled in a weird way.
Perhaps some 90-95% of the material CIA considers “CLASSIFIED” does not involve actual national security in any way, shape, form, or manner. The classification was slapped on to avoid criticism or embarrassment to some official who was probably in WAY over his (or her) head.
Deceit in small matters does not lead to clarity or transparency in the big items.
It’s obviously Trump’s fault that disgruntled employees might leak classified info.
[Rolls eyes]
So the CIA rushes to CNN to get this out?
CIA is worried disgruntled employees, if fired, are a security risk. LOL
Pro Tip - they are an even bigger risk if they stay at CIA with ongoing access to information.
Like them spying on us?
How many of the CIA opertives they are protecting are named “Mohammad”?
If “disgruntled” employees take information to foreign entities they will be hung by the neck.
Exactly—”national security” classification is a great way to hide waste, fraud and abuse.
More propaganda nonsense from the anti-American Democrat-Marxist legacy media.
My fear is they will engineer a “9/11” event, so they can blame it on Trump “gutting” the CIA.
That is why “move fast and break things” is so critical.
We cannot give our enemies that remain inside the government time and space to organize and implement treason.
“Pro Tip - they are an even bigger risk if they stay at CIA with ongoing access to information.”
That’s right, and why even hire people who would think or act that way in the first place?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.