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CIA staffers offered buyout deals to resign
- solumunus 2y agoThe coup is well underway. Public reaction is not yet reflecting the gravity of the situation.
- TrackerFF 2y agoThe public is actively being distracted by big headlines regarding tariffs, what country / area Trump wants to take over, and stuff like that.
- nico 2y agohttps://archive.ph/sLXKA https://archive.ph/sLXKA
- nico 2y agoReuters article submission to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42943395 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42943395
- thunderbong 2y agoOne of the rare instances of recursion on HN
- woggy 2y agoI'm not American. Are these people not concerned of the effects of emptying out CIA and FBI?
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- murillians 2y agoNo, emptying them out is the goal (the reasons why vary depending on who you ask)
- gscott 2y agoU S govt at least 25% too big.
- throwfgtpwd234 2y agoBased on what specific evidence?
- egberts1 2y agoRunaway Federal debt.
- lesuorac 2y agoLiterally you could fire ever single federal employee and you'd still have a deficit (3,000,000 * $106,382 = 319 billion [1]). It's not even really close, 319 billion is ~1/6 of the deficit [2]. [1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/01/07/what-the-data-says-about-federal-workers/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/01/07/what-the-... [2]: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-25-107714 https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-25-107714
- egberts1 2y agoThose sliver-of-a-budget grunt workers do quite a bit of disbursements of US taxpayers money.
- lesuorac 2y ago1) Firing people doesn't stop disbursement. Especially if they're something low-level like idk a security guard. 2) Disbursement is done because Congress told them to with a law. If you want less disbursement then repeal the law.
- rubberpoliceman 2y agoThey are not. In their defense, these people are imbeciles.
- thatguy0900 2y agoThe people who voted for this to happen were told that the Cia and fbi are part of the "deep state" that stole the last election away from Trump and have been attempting to unjustly prosecute him for made up crimes
- fallingfrog 2y agoIt’s not about emptying them out so much as replacing them with loyalists.
- ashoeafoot 2y agoSounds like a attack by foreign powers to me
- suraci 2y agoor it's a part of the great purge
- ashoeafoot 2y agoUncle putin wants them gone
- suraci 2y ago1. CIA overthrew Yanukovych and set fire to Donbas 2. Russia-Ukraine war 3. Endless fiscal support to Ukraine and Inflation 4. Fiscal crisis and Trump's 2rd term 5. Karma is a biatch
- egberts1 2y agoProbably not the first time that a "stash drop" is used as the final paycheck, ... or something.
- throw0101b 2y ago* https://archive.is/https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/the-cia-is-about-to-get-a-trump-makeover-16fc0cbf https://archive.is/https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-sec... * https://archive.is/MpHyC https://archive.is/MpHyC