C.I.A. Rejects Diversity Efforts Once Deemed as Essential to Its Mission
The Trump administration is dismantling programs that some former directors believed helped sharpen the agency’s competitive edge.
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The Trump administration is dismantling programs that some former directors believed helped sharpen the agency’s competitive edge.
The appeal reflects the priority John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director, has placed on increasing the agency’s intelligence collection on China.
A watchdog group has said the exchanges on the Signal app were federal records, and sued in an effort to preserve them.
President Trump and other officials have given shifting, varied, implausible and sometimes conflicting explanations for how highly sensitive military information was shared in a group chat.
Under questioning from senators, the C.I.A. chief and the director of national intelligence pointed to the defense secretary to determine what was appropriate to share.
Democrats denounced the country’s top intelligence officials for “sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior” for discussing secret military plans in a group chat.
U.S. intelligence chiefs were scheduled to brief a Senate panel on global threats, but the hearing was likely to be overshadowed by questions over the security breach.
Some newer employees have been summoned to an off-site location and asked to surrender their credentials.
Trump administration officials say the halt in assistance is a warning to the Ukrainians of the consequences of not cooperating with the president.
Many of the officers had been ordered to take positions in recruiting under the previous C.I.A. director.