In a stunning revelation that’s raising serious questions about accountability in Washington, Dr. Terry Adirim — a key figure behind the Biden administration’s controversial military vaccine mandate — has been fired from her role at the Central Intelligence Agency, a source tells Breitbart News.
Adirim, a senior health official under Biden at both the Pentagon and later the CIA, was allegedly terminated over her legally questionable handling of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate that forced thousands of service members out of the military.
🚨 What You Need to Know
Dr. Adirim served as the acting assistant secretary of defense for health affairs during the rollout of the Department of Defense’s vaccine mandate. After leaving the Pentagon in 2022, she took a new role at the CIA as Director of its Centers for Global Health Services. But that stint came to a quiet end just a week ago.
Why? According to sources, her firing is directly connected to her role in pushing service members to take a vaccine under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) — something the law says the military cannot mandate without a presidential waiver, which was never properly issued.
📝 The Memo That Sparked Legal Alarm
On September 14, 2021, Dr. Adirim issued a now-infamous memo instructing military health providers to treat Pfizer’s EUA vaccine (BioNTech) as “interchangeable” with the FDA-approved Comirnaty vaccine — even though Comirnaty was largely unavailable in the U.S.
She wrote:
“DoD health care providers should use doses distributed under the EUA to administer the vaccination series as if the doses were the licensed vaccine.”
But that directive raised legal red flags — even inside the Pentagon. U.S. law under 10 U.S.C. § 1107(a) makes it clear: service members cannot be forced to take a vaccine under EUA unless the president signs a waiver and informs Congress. That never happened.
Despite Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin saying he’d seek a waiver, there’s no public record of one ever being filed or approved. Still, the military began punishing and discharging service members who refused to take the EUA shot.
Not everyone in the Pentagon agreed with Adirim’s approach. In fact, a month after her memo, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense David J. Smith proposed an alternative: delay disciplinary action until the FDA-approved vaccine could be made available.
But his proposal was rejected — and with it, a crucial opportunity to avoid the legal and ethical nightmare that followed. Smith’s draft memo warned that continuing to punish service members based on EUA doses could expose the military to significant litigation — and he was right.
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Adirim’s directive has become central to lawsuits filed by service members who were forced out of the military. One such suit is led by former Marine Capt. Dale Saran, the military attorney who famously ended the Pentagon’s forced anthrax vaccination program in 2004.
Saran called Adirim’s memo a “fraud”, saying she knowingly misled military officials by treating an unlicensed product as if it were FDA-approved.
And he’s not alone. Thousands of former service members — and attorneys representing them — are demanding accountability.
🚫 Political Bias? Adirim Caught Violating Hatch Act
This isn’t the first time Adirim has been caught bending the rules.
In 2022, shortly after joining the Department of Veterans Affairs, she was flagged for liking a political fundraising tweet on X (formerly Twitter) — a direct violation of the Hatch Act, which bars federal employees from engaging in political activity in their official roles.
The tweet, urging donations to Democrat candidates and warning of threats to “our democracy,” included a fundraising link via ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s main donation platform.
According to federal guidelines, even “liking” such posts is prohibited. When asked, the VA dodged the question, and Adirim quietly unliked the tweet.
Since returning to office in January, President Donald Trump has moved quickly to reverse the damage caused by Biden’s mandate.
In one of his first acts, Trump signed an executive order to reinstate service members who were kicked out over the vaccine — with full backpay and restored rank. Those who left voluntarily can also return, though without backpay and with a minimum two-year commitment.
New Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth followed up with a clear directive: the door is open, and the Pentagon is actively reaching out to each affected service member.
“We’re committed to doing right by those who were affected… Their service mattered then, and it still matters now. We’re ready to welcome them back,” said Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell.
Former service members have until April 1, 2026, to pursue reinstatement.
Dr. Terry Adirim’s quiet firing from the CIA should not be the end of the story. Her actions contributed to the wrongful discharge of thousands of brave Americans who simply stood up for their rights.
Let’s be clear: forcing service members to take an unapproved vaccine without a lawful waiver is not just wrong — it’s a violation of federal law.
And while the Biden administration swept it under the rug, the Trump administration is finally bringing justice to those who were punished for saying “no.”
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