Phil Pulte is a man on a mission.

Just days into the job, the New York Times reports the new acting director of national intelligence, OD&Y, could announce layoffs as early as today.

The top Democrats on House and Senate intel committees have sent him a letter warning him against those cuts.

Aside though from cutting jobs at OD&I,, Pulte may be working on another task for

President Donald Trump. Well, let's talk about what legal recourse the employees have because we've

seen this movie before. Many of the employees of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence

allegedly or theoretically have civil service protections and they could fight to get their

jobs back.

There are courts in this country that are allowing people to go forward with those kinds of lawsuits.

Maureen Comey, former FBI director, Jim Comey's daughter, has a lawsuit like that that's currently

ongoing here in Manhattan.

But in other areas of the country, fired members of the civil service have not been allowed

access to federal courts

to do that. They've been told they have to direct their complaints to the Merit Systems Protection

Board. That's a sort of Byzantine administrative process that takes a very long time to get through.

And that's by design. The reason that they are going ahead and firing some of these people is because

they know that recourse, if any, is going to be a long time and coming.

They say we're concerned that your record as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency demonstrates a willingness to misuse your position,

including your access to sensitive information to pursue President Trump's perceived political enemies and further his retributive political agenda.

On that note, there's Reuters reporting that White House officials delayed Leanne and O'D and I report regarding the vulnerabilities on voting machines,

three sources telling them that that report did not go far enough on the big lie on Donald Trump's attempt to say that the election was stolen.

It was not.

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