An order sidelining almost 60 senior career leaders at the U.S. Agency for International Development was temporarily rescinded Thursday by one of the few remaining senior career civil servants with the authority to do so, two current and two former USAID employees told NBC News.

Hours later, the same career employee was also placed on administrative leave.

“The materials show no evidence that you engaged in misconduct,” Nick Gottlieb, USAID’s director of employee and labor relations, said…