{"id":16709,"date":"2025-04-01T06:44:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T06:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/elon-musk-visits-cia-to-discuss-doge-cuts\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T06:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T06:44:22","slug":"elon-musk-visits-cia-to-discuss-doge-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/elon-musk-visits-cia-to-discuss-doge-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Visits CIA to Discuss DOGE Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Elon Musk visited C.I.A. headquarters on Monday to discuss his efforts to downsize the government as a federal judge ordered the agency to reconsider its firings of employees who had been assigned to diversity recruiting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The C.I.A. in February moved to fire some of the people who had worked on diversity issues, pursuant to an executive order from President Trump and guidance from his administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The court initially declined to block that move. But on Monday, Judge Anthony Trenga of the Eastern District of Virginia ordered the agency to grant appeals to 51 officers and consider them for other jobs at the C.I.A., according to a lawyer for the plaintiffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe judge decided there are constitutional, statutory and regulatory rights related to a reduction in force,\u201d said Kevin Carroll, the lawyer. \u201cThe C.I.A. director has to listen to appeals from these officers in good faith and they have to be reconsidered for jobs in the intelligence community. There are no performance or security allegations against any of these people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Officials would not describe in detail the nature of Mr. Musk\u2019s visit. But John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director, has been shrinking the agency and considering a wider reorganization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a statement, a C.I.A. spokeswoman said Mr. Musk and Mr. Ratcliffe had \u201ca conversation on government efficiency,\u201d discussing how the C.I.A. could apply what Mr. Musk\u2019s team has learned at in its operations throughout the government to make sure the spy agency spends funds \u201cwisely and appropriately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Musk previously visited the National Security Agency, which collects some of the most valuable intelligence, scooping up telephone and computer communications around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Officials said final decisions haven\u2019t been made about the C.I.A.\u2019s reorganization, but former officials and congressional aides have said that the agency has considered undoing some Obama-era changes that created mission centers focused on different parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That reorganization was designed by the C.I.A. director at the time, John O. Brennan. Mr. Ratcliffe has been deeply critical of Mr. Brennan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt would be fair to say his tenure was one of the worst things that has ever happened to the Agency,\u201d Mr. Ratcliffe said in an interview with <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2025\/01\/23\/exclusive-trumps-cia-director-john-ratcliffe-john-brennans-tenure-one-of-worst-things-that-ever-happened-to-agency-need-to-depoliticize-intelligence\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Breitbart News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In addition to moving to fire some of the officers involved in diversity recruiting, the agency has also dismissed about 80 people in other jobs who had been hired within the past two years. Officials have said the reductions are based on performance, but former officials and members of Congress have expressed doubt about the criteria used to terminate the employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The U.S. attorney\u2019s office for the Eastern District of Virginia wrote in a letter to the plaintiffs that they had until Monday evening to decide whether they would resign, retire or be fired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s like telling a person you can choose one of three ways of execution \u2014 electric chair, hanging or firing,\u201d Mr. Carroll said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Judge Trenga had <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/27\/us\/politics\/cia-firing-diversity.html\" title=\"\">earlier said<\/a> that Mr. Ratcliffe had broad powers to fire employees but strongly suggested that he consider allowing the employees to appeal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After that ruling, the U.S. attorney\u2019s office said in the letter that there would be no appeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere is no process to appeal this decision within the agency or otherwise seek reassignment within the agency,\u201d the letter said. \u201cAccordingly, the agency is moving forward with the separation of these officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a court filing, the government argued that the law that established the C.I.A., the National Security Act of 1947, gives the director unfettered power to terminate any officer if it is \u201cnecessary or advisable in the interests of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But on Monday, Judge Trenga made his earlier suggestion an order, telling the C.I.A. it had to allow employees to appeal their termination and that the agency had to consider new positions for the officers, Mr. Carroll said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Several of the C.I.A. employees had multiple offers to work elsewhere in the agency. The firings of the probationary employees and the people who have worked on diversity issues have eroded morale at the agency, according to former officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a meeting with agency officers on Friday, Mr. Ratcliffe was confronted with a series of questions about the terminations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Ratcliffe, according to people briefed on the meeting, did not directly answer a question about the diversity-worker firings, citing the ongoing litigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A spokeswoman for the agency declined to directly comment on Mr. Musk\u2019s meeting, the judge\u2019s order or the firings. But in a statement she said Mr. Ratcliffe was working to \u201censure the C.I.A. work force is responsive to the Trump administration\u2019s national security priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Seamus Hughes<!-- --> contributed research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/31\/us\/politics\/elon-musk-cia-doge.html\">Source link 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