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Putin has spoken.
The large-scale cuts that President Donald Trumps acting director of national intelligence had been considering imposing at his own office started on Monday, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
The deep state firings have begun, the source said, declining to give details on how many jobs had been cut.
Sources had previously told CNN that Bill Pulte, Trumps pick to serve as director of national intelligence in an acting capacity, was looking at cutting hundreds of jobs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Last week, Pulte showed up to his new job a day early after asking for a list of every employee in the office, sources told CNN, catching even outgoing director Tulsi Gabbard off-guard.
A source familiar with the matter told CNN that the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) and the National Counterintelligence and Security Center were expected to be hit hard by the cuts. However, on Tuesday, the first source said the NCTC had not been impacted by the firings.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/politics/odni-firings-underway-bill-pulte
Kid Berwyn
(25,471 posts)anyone who has integrity.
Baitball Blogger
(52,880 posts)American white males shall not undergo the same level of scrutiny as everyone else.
Kid Berwyn
(25,471 posts)...only morbidly wealthy American white males shall not undergo the same level of scrutiny as everyone else.
Pulte is an heir to a construction fortune bigger than than trump could ever gain, legally.
ETA: Reminds me of the Borgias, where one who also was Pope would pick out the rich fellows to back for bishopries, etc., prop up the enterprise with concessions, commissions and what-not. After the nobleman became super wealthy, Borgia would invite them over to the Ballroom for a big dinner and poison them. The Church -- Borgia, in those days -- would receive title to the deceased clerics' lands.
What a system.
mopinko
(74,225 posts)w big mouths.
Johonny
(26,837 posts)In the ass.
bluestarone
(22,538 posts)Second, every hour, every day with NO ONE able to stop them! I feel so helpless!
Zackzzzz
(415 posts)edhopper
(37,689 posts)asked
yellow dahlia
(6,860 posts)Are the RepugliCONS in Congress prepared to give up our national security?
orangecrush
(31,807 posts)Bettie
(19,986 posts)the competent people!
I mean, intelligence agencies are best run by people without functioning brain cells, right?