Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell initiates hiring freeze
CNNCNN — Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has initiated a temporary hiring freeze at the agency he was recently appointed to oversee, according to spokesperson Amanda Schoch, who emphasized that the move was “not an effort to purge” officials for political reasons. “Since assuming his new role on Feb. 20, Acting DNI Grenell and the ODNI leadership team have embarked on a careful review of these studies completed prior to his arrival, with an eye to implementing key recommendations,” Schoch told CNN in a statement. A similar hiring pause was implemented in 2018 as part of ODNI’s first Transformation effort.” “Acting DNI Grenell has emphasized with ODNI leadership this review is not an effort to purge, as some have erroneously suggested. Instead, current and former senior intelligence officials previously told CNN that Grenell has spent his time in meetings getting up to speed on intelligence, including the underlying intelligence in the contentious briefing to Congress, and the organization’s leadership, which coordinates the mammoth responsibilities of 16 different intelligence agencies, including the CIA and NSA.
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