If firing CIA officers would prompt them to "risk treason" by spilling nation's secrets, they need to part with the agency, which is the thinking of Director John Ratcliffe.
A U.S. judge on Thursday refused to halt the firings of 21 CIA officers who were assigned to diversity, equality, inclusion and accessibility programs that President Donald Trump ordered eliminated, their attorney said.
A federal judge has turned down a bid to block the Trump administration from firing intelligence officers who worked in DEI programs, but he prodded the spy agencies involved to try to find new jobs in the intelligence community for those being ousted.
A judge in Virginia has given Trump and the CIA the green light to pluck intelligence workers from diversity, equity and inclusion roles — falling in line with the president's axing of DEI policies. The post ‘That was really disgusting’: Federal judge gives Trump and CIA free rein to fire intelligence workers in DEI roles who can’t appeal or change agencies first appeared on Law & Crime.
The intelligence workers argued the CIA and Director of National Intelligence fired them for 'assumed' support of DEI rather than misconduct.
The CIA late last week moved to fire more than a dozen officers for working on diversity issues, in what amounts to a deeply unusual round of mass firings at the agency, according to court filings and current and former officials familiar with the effort.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe plans to apply counterterrorism methodologies developed over the past two decades to operations targeting the cartels. A person familiar with the plans told the outlet that the agency aims to leverage its expertise in tracking ...
If firing CIA officers would prompt them to “risk treason” by spilling nation’s secrets, they need to part with the agency, which is the thinking of Director John Ratcliffe.  Read More