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A US federal judge, Anthony Trenga, ruled on Thursday that President Donald Trump’s government can proceed with plans to dismiss dozens of officers from the CIA and other intelligence agencies who worked in DEI programmes.
Trenga noted that he might have reached a different decision if fairness and morality were the standards on which he had to rule.
But the law dictates otherwise, Trenga said.
“They had the misfortune of being last assigned to a DEI programme,” Trenga said, calling it a “difficult situation.”
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Trenga had previously put the imminent dismissal of the intelligence officers on hold to hear arguments for and against the move.
The lawsuit was brought by 17 CIA officers and two employees with the ODNI, including the former head of the office.
United States President Donald Trump has announced a reversal of the concessions granted in an oil transaction agreement with Venezuela by his predecessor, Joe Biden, more than two years ago.
In a post on Truth Social on Wednesday, Trump stated that he was “reversing the concessions” of the “oil transaction agreement, dated 26 November 2022.”
That agreement, made in 2022, allowed the Biden administration to grant Chevron a licence to expand its production in Venezuela and export the country’s crude oil to the United States.
However, Trump did not mention Chevron in his post.
“We are hereby reversing the concessions that Crooked Joe Biden gave to Nicolás Maduro, of Venezuela, on the oil transaction agreement, dated 26 November 2022, and also having to do with electoral conditions within Venezuela, which have not been met by the Maduro regime,” Trump said.
