He protected it at all costs. In January 1976, when Bush first arrived at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., that now bears his name, the CIA was being sacked like a conquered city. A quarter ...

The firings come just days after a federal judge cleared the way for the C.I.A. director, John Ratcliffe, to fire employees at will. The judge, Anthony J. Trenga of the Eastern District of Virginia, ...

Officers selected for the firings were summoned, without given reason, to a location away from CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia and told to hand over their credentials to access the building.

Some recent new hires at the CIA have been fired, days after a federal judge permitted ... Some probationary employees have been called to meet at a location away from the agency’s Langley, Virginia, ...