Judge tosses temporary lifeline to CIA doctor fired by Trump
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Left: Donald Trump speaks at the annual Road to Majority conference in Washington, DC, in June 2024 (Allison Bailey/NurPhoto via AP). Right: Dr. Terry Adirim (Department of Defense).

A federal judge in Virginia has issued a temporary injunction preventing the CIA from terminating a high-ranking doctor. This decision comes amidst her lawsuit against the U.S. intelligence agency, alleging that her dismissal last month was driven by pressure from far-right “internet trolls” and “political extremists.”

Dr. Terry Adirim, who serves as director of the CIA’s Center for Global Health Services, is pursuing legal action against the agency and far-right commentator Ivan Raiklin. She is also including Raiklin’s employer, America’s Future, in her lawsuit, claiming that they infringed upon her rights to due process and privacy.

Adirim says information about her being recruited and hired by the CIA late last year was leaked to Raiklin and made public by him within days of her “quietly starting work” at the agency. She accuses Raiklin of subjecting her to “vile public abuse,” including social media posts and interview sound bites about how she should be convicted of “genocide and mass mutilation” for being an alleged “architect” of the Pentagon’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, per Adirim’s complaint. Raiklin’s comments and actions ultimately helped influence Adirim’s firing, she says.

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On Monday, U.S. District Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff, a Joe Biden appointee, kept an administrative stay in place issued Saturday, in which he ordered the government to “refrain from terminating [Adirim] or otherwise altering her employment status” after Adirim filed a motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) on Friday.

Nachmanoff wrote Monday in his order keeping the stay in place that Adirim’s firing would remain on hold “as the court awaits full briefing and argument on the motion.”

Nachmanoff gave the CIA until noon Tuesday to file a response to Adirim’s TRO request after it previously failed to do so, along with scheduling a briefing hearing for May 9.

“The majority of Plaintiff’s complaint, and the entire basis of her instant motion, is taken up by a speculative and unsupported theory as to why she was terminated that has no relation to actual events,” wrote U.S. Attorney Erik S. Siebert in the government’s opposition filing on Tuesday afternoon.

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