A federal district judge ruled that C.I.A. Director John Ratcliffe has the authority to fire intelligence officers who worked on diversity initiatives.
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The real question: Do the new installed employees even know how to spell C.I.A let alone how to use the super complicated tools at their disposal... or are they just racists given a title and power to commit crimes against humanity on American soil.
Judge Anthony J. Trenga acknowledged that, while he might have ruled differently based on principles of fairness, the law and regulations grant Ratcliffe broad discretion to dismiss employees at will and without review.
Thanks, Anthony. Good to know you'll be able to sleep at night knowing you upheld the "law." I'm sure that will be of great comfort to everyone as we descend into banana republic chaos.
If this isn't an example of how our government has been destroyed piece by piece, I dont know what is:
- Judge might have ruled fairly
- Judge didn't rule fairly because the law isn't fair
There are at will states too so any public or private business owner in that state has same rights are hiring and firing at will. If you live in those states you have no choice.
So if someone is assigned a diversity task by someone they report up to, they can be fired for not doing their job, and also fired for doing their job.
For his next trick, Judge Trenga will rule that people can be fired for not obeying orders, including rejecting sexual advances or instructions to do illicit government activity.
Ten men with collective 285 Yrs. of collective service to our nation. Not 1 being fired for performance, but only for the task to which they were assigned. All to appease ONE man whose recluse need to revenge is damaging thousands of govt employees lives.
This is "at will" employment at work. There is often no "contract" for work beyond an agreement that either party can revoke at any time, for any reasons, or for NO reason. If you've ever been harranged for not giving a 2 week notice, know that they wouldn't give YOU that courtesy in return.
Not surprised. Judge Anthony J. Trenga already demonstrated he's in the tank for the WH. He ruled in favor of the Muslim ban in 2017, & set aside the conviction of Michael Flynn's partner, Bijan Kahn, in 2019.
For everyone it is relevant to, which is most of us. 18 states have recall clauses of various quality.
Pretty sure Idaho, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and Louisiana have them for instance.
Right? I was just thinking they did assigned tasks like any other worker anywhere 🤷🏼♀️ which is usually a desirable attribute (follows instructions, team player)
That sucks! It implies that DEI are less qualified staff when we know that isn't true. This is allowing racism / misogyny/ abelism to clear the way for mediocre white men to feel comfortable again
So, the Pledge of Allegiance should say , "with liberty and justice for all RICH WHITE MEN"?
Our nation was founded by rich white men, was run by rich white men, & will continue to be run by rich white men because the loopholes favor rich white men?
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. This does not exist at this time !
Right, considering even the first trump admin had some DEI initiatives, this seems ridiculous (notwithstanding the fact that DEI IS a good thing) because of folks had refused to implement them they would've been fired for noncompliance.
As a 39 year old, my anger for the abject lies we have been fed from birth about the law, about freedom, inalienable rights, investing in America because it would eventually invest in us, has been growing.
It was never about liberty & justice for all, was it?
There is always hope for change while they’re still breathing. And right now is a rare opportunity to reach out to those who otherwise wouldn’t be interested in even hearing from the otherwise. Folks are pissed and starting to see who really works for who.
I don’t know why editing remains unavailable, or why auto-correct changes correctly spelled, intended words, but it does remind me being replaced by AI is further than some hope. Computers can be very, very stupid sometimes.
I take great pride in my abilities with the English language, but my goodness, technology makes me look stupid sometimes! I miss the days of proofreading with a red pen to paper.
Unfortunately no,as a child of the 50s and 60s I found out the FBI are not always the good guys, President Nixon allowed students to be murdered, racism runs deep and the good guys were taken out in assassinations there is no liberty justice for all. You need to be rich white and male for that
Initially I thought the objective was to roll back the Calander to pre-1964, now I suspect the real date is pre-1890; a time when laissez faire capitalism prevailed and wealthy white men ruled with impunity.
(Sarcasm) Intelligence is certainly best gained through monocultural understanding. What does a person need to know other than victim phenotype and location?
Waiting for the NYT story: "Trump CIA preparing to send white covert operatives into Mali wearing blackface." CNBC reports "shares in SC Johnson rise abruptly as Kiwi brand shoe polish sales skyrocket."
Insanity, using that as an excuse to fire people. They are getting rid of all who have the knowledge to keep our country safe. Perhaps our leaders have been involved in or plan to be involved in activities they don’t want us to know about. Just saying!
I mean it’s pretty openly known dump is a Kremlin asset. So…my guess is poop in is hurting bad for money and dump is funneling it to him to try to keep funding their assaults on Ukraine. He told dump he owed him remember.
What’s funny to me is that all the liberals who became cia agents and went to work attacking real leftist activists are now being rooted out of the agency by the far right coup they went to work for.
Why you want to piss of the most skilled intelligence officers in our country…. I’m not sure, but I can’t wait to see how it plays out 🤣🫣😂🫣🤣. ALL OF THE MILITARY IS GAY AND SO ARE THE NUKES!! This should be fun 🎇🎆🎇🎆
I remember reading during World War 2, a handful of officers wanted to root out homosexuals. His secretary told him in no uncertain terms that if they did that, they would lose most of their logistics chain starting with her and about sixty others.
They got Alan Turing - the guy who helped break the cryptography in WW2 to defeat hitler… they then forced him to be castrated. So, they did evil things to lgbt military people even after we helped them beat hitler.
Imagine being assigned to ADA compliance in your department - not by choice, but assigned. Suddenly they decide ADA doesn't matter-you get fired - not offered a lateral transfer. Illogical.same w/ diversity initiatives. If priorities change, you change the employee's duties, not fire them
Outrageous. Trump’s admin guts diversity at the CIA, and now Ratcliffe can axe intelligence officers for daring to build a more inclusive agency. This isn’t ‘merit’—it’s a purge of progress. When will this regime stop weaponizing power against fairness?
You know who worked on diversity initiatives? Managers and leaders—they were required to by their senior leadership and the last CIA directors!!! I anticipate waves of lawsuits.
What bothers me is that these employees were given a task to do. I doubt they advocated for the task. Sort of like the DOJ employees working on Jan 6 investigations AND The t-rump classified documents case!
This and every other thing they have done will be reversed. It may take a while, but we will see it. In the interrum, it sucks. It's wrong. Rascism will never be right.
"In phase 3, scheduled for Feb 20 to July 19, DOGE begins to commit mass-scale firings of any employee in any office or part of the federal government which did not take part in any DEI offices or initiatives, but who were nonetheless determined through unknown criteria to be "DEI-related" wikipedia
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We need to be out in the streets resisting, showing them that we cannot be stolen from or controlled
#USProtests
#3E
#R50501
- Judge might have ruled fairly
- Judge didn't rule fairly because the law isn't fair
Give the same notice when you quit as they would when they fire you: Zilch
Pretty sure Idaho, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and Louisiana have them for instance.
Acts of kindness are being condemned.
Our nation was founded by rich white men, was run by rich white men, & will continue to be run by rich white men because the loopholes favor rich white men?
They gonna take DEI voting rights away next???
A Republican judge..🤔
It was never about liberty & justice for all, was it?
There is always hope for change while they’re still breathing. And right now is a rare opportunity to reach out to those who otherwise wouldn’t be interested in even hearing from the otherwise. Folks are pissed and starting to see who really works for who.
I don’t know why editing remains unavailable, or why auto-correct changes correctly spelled, intended words, but it does remind me being replaced by AI is further than some hope. Computers can be very, very stupid sometimes.
https://ballotpedia.org/Anthony_Trenga
good story, though.
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It weaponizes authority and grants the CIA director unchecked power to purge employees based on political or ideological reasons.
This weakens further institutional integrity and morale.
This should concern everyone who values a competent, independent intelligence community.
That's right they are doing that now to Federal Employees
there is no other solution.