{"id":155750,"date":"2026-07-01T21:23:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/01\/4th-circuit-blocks-firing-of-intelligence-officers-assigned-to-dei-programs\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T21:23:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:23:52","slug":"4th-circuit-blocks-firing-of-intelligence-officers-assigned-to-dei-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/01\/4th-circuit-blocks-firing-of-intelligence-officers-assigned-to-dei-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"4th Circuit Blocks Firing of Intelligence Officers Assigned to DEI Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"

In its 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said the 19 career officers in the Central Intelligence Agency and Office of the Director of National Intelligence were fired as part of reductions in force and were therefore owed constitutional due process.<\/p>\n

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In its 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said the 19 career officers in the Central Intelligence Agency and Office of the Director of National Intelligence were fired as part of reductions in force and were therefore owed constitutional due process.<\/p>\n

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In its 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said the 19 career officers in the Central Intelligence Agency and Office of the Director of National Intelligence were fired as part of reductions in force and were therefore owed constitutional due process. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In its 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":155751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/legal-news-mrjIX1.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}