CIA Disciplines 15 Officers For Harassment

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CIA Disciplines 15 Officers For Sexual, Racial Or Other Types Of Harassment -- Washington Times

A senior CIA official familiar with harassment policy, whom agency spokesman would not allow to be quoted by name, said the idea was to deter the behavior, not end the careers of the offenders. An unspecified number of CIA employees have been fired over the years for harassment, said White, the agency spokesman.

The officials declined to name the disciplined employees or describe their jobs. One recent disciplinary action was not included in the examples, officials said: Jonathan Bank, the CIA’s director of Iran operations, who was removed from his post at headquarters in March after it was found he created a hostile work environment that caused morale to plummet. He is now assigned to the Pentagon.

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My Comment: These officers were disciplined .... not fired. Talk about sending the wrong message.