Washington – CIA confirmed on Wednesday that it has offered to purchase the employees who have voluntarily resigned, the latest groups of targeted workers in push by President Donald Trump to change the federal government.
A CIA spokesperson refused to say how many people get offers or do they face any time limit to decide.
Trump’s personnel’s office management has already offered millions of federal workers, if they agree to quit their jobs on Thursday. The CIA and other national security agencies were initially exempted, but the CIA offer suggests that some corners of the government would survive the overhaul of Trump.
Trump has long criticized the US intelligence agencies, and his new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, has promised major changes, claiming that the CIA wandered from its original focus on human-accelerated intelligence.
In a statement sent to the Associated Press, the CIA stated that the bio -offer is part of the attempt by Ratcliffe to move faster “to ensure that the CIA is responsible for the administration’s national security priorities.”
The agency said of bayouts, “These steps are part of a holistic strategy to infect the agency with fresh energy, provide opportunities to growing leaders to emerge, and to distribute the CIA on their mission Provide better position for. ” Wall Street Journal.
Since taking over last month, Trump has started an attempt to prepare several federal agencies, especially the US agency for International Development, which has been destroyed to a large extent by Trump and Billonaire Elon Musk.
National security experts have warned that deep cuts from CIA and other agencies may be at risk by obstructing their missions or reducing the flow of intelligence between the US and its colleagues. Sen. Mark Warner of Senate Intelligence Committee Senior Democrat, Virginia urged the CIA employees to carefully weigh the proposal.
Warner said in a statement, “Some government agencies are more important for our national security than the CIA.” “There are many federal employees in the CIA, my constituents, and I am warning them that these ‘purchases’ are empty promises, because the Congress has not approved any money to do it. I have resigned to people. I hate and then get tightened like contractors on President Trump’s construction projects.
Although the exact number has been classified, the CIA engaged in the collection and analysis of thousands of people, both worked in foreign postings along with its headquarters in Virginia.
Ratcliffe told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee in January that the CIA should do better work to use technologies such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing, while the agency should also expand the use of human intelligence collection.
“We are not where we are going to be,” Ratcliffe said that the senators considered his nomination.