CIA director Gina Haspel told Barr that Meadows, apparently the de facto chief job placement officer for Patel, directed her to fire her current deputy, Vaughn Bishop, to make way for her new deputy. It was a fait accompli. She described her White House meeting with Meadows. “Okay, I need to go down the hall,” she told him. “Why?” asked Meadows. “I have to tell the president that I’m not going to tolerate that,” she said. “I would leave.”
