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CIA reportedly offers buyouts to entire workforce in latest Trump-era purge
(www.theguardian.com)
Weird that they don't do this with the Secret Service
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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Nothing could possibly go wrong by putting thousands of disaffected spies into your civilian work force...
Better fix that by putting a Russian asset in charge of national intelligence.
Current scuttlebutt is this has been less than a 1/10th as effective as Clinton's reduction in force, and isn't even beating normal retirement numbers.
If trump had just done buyouts and VERA from the start thru official channels, he might have gotten close to doing as much harm as neoliberals did 30 years ago to the federal workforce
But no one trusts it after how it started.
Surely this would be an absolute intelligence clusterfuck for the US if the entire CIA staff just... left.
Verbiage is confusing, but there's no way 100% are eligible for a buyout.
Even if you combine VSIP and VERA, to fall under "buyout", not every fed is going to be eligible, and definitely not every CIA employee.
But we don't even have a budget, we're still on a CR, there's literally no money allocated for any of this and very few feds are dumb enough to just take Trump's admin at their word.
Only if you think that the U.S. having an intelligence-gathering capacity is a good thing. I'm guessing Putin is not in favor of it.
With Trump as President and Tulsi Gabbard in charge of national intelligence, Putin probably doesn't mind because he'll get the intelligence soon enough anyway.
Probably. But you dismantle the CIA and everyone will want a piece of the U.S. and try to take it.
Then they will want to reverse this when Russia and China expose Trump and his gang's dirty laundry.
Don't need a CIA when you have an FSB.