Director of National Intelligence
Tulsi Gabbard wasted no time removing the cancers within her department.
The intelligence community is rife with anti-Trump agents and officials
who cannot be trusted. The liberal media is going to frame it as some
political maneuver to control the flow of sensitive information. It’s
nothing of the sort, and that’s rich coming from the mouthpiece that
willingly published leaks during the first Trump administration to
damage the president. That wasn’t going to happen again (via Fox News):
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has fired
the top officials leading the National Intelligence Council – whom
whistleblowers describe as "radically opposed to Trump" — and has moved
the agency to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or
ODNI, to ensure she can block any "politicization of intelligence," Fox
News Digital has learned.
Gabbard fired Mike Collins,
who was
serving as the acting chair of the National Intelligence Council, and
his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof,
Tuesday, senior intelligence officials
told Fox News Digital.
Fox News Digital reached out
Langan-Riekhof for comment and did not immediately hear back, and
couldn't immediately find contact information for Collins.
Collins
also has whistleblower complaints against him for political bias and
"deliberately undermining the incoming Trump administration," officials
said.
They added that Collins was closely associated with
Michael Morrell, the former deputy director of the CIA
who worked to
write a public letter in 2020 claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop had
"all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation," and to
get signatures from top ex-intelligence officials.
As for
Langan-Reikhof, officials said she has been a "key advocate" for
diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and is someone who
whistleblowers allege is "radically opposed to Trump."
Meanwhile,
Gabbard is moving the National Intelligence Council from the CIA to the
Office of the Director of National Intelligence to "directly hold
accountable any improper action and politicization of intelligence," Fox
News Digital has learned.
Many intel community leakers are "career bureaucrats that are entrenched in Washington politics," officials said.
If you run afoul, you’re gone. Plain and simple. It’s a warning shot
to the deep state: FAFO. For these two staffers, not only do they have
allegations of bias from the past, but they also leaked classified
information to the press regarding some memos that contradicted the
claims about Tren de Aragua that provided the reasoning behind President
Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act to expedite deportations.
Gabbard’s deputy chief of staff, Alexa Henning, added that they’re Obama
holdovers.
Gabbard is cleaning house, and if former CIA Director John Brennan was mad, it was the right decision.
It's also not the first time the media has attacked Ms. Gabbard and were later forced to apologize.
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