hey zod, when you hire a specialist, they hire isn't final for another 10 minutes. during these 10 minutes you can still cancel the hire. because of that, we don't give you the specialist's abilities until it's final. don't want you hiring the intelligence officer, seeing everything, and then canceling.
if you want to get the specialist's abilities right away, you can tap the "finalize" button in the specialists panel.
nice catch with the outpost portraits in the info panel, we'll fix that.