How Tulsi Gabbard Says She’s Draining The ‘Rotted Intelligence Community’

WASHINGTON—Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard established a special task force in April aimed at restoring transparency and accountability to the Intelligence Community, and fixing the broken system that has allowed weaponization to run rampant throughout the United States government.

That task force is named the “Director’s Initiatives Group,” or DIG, and it is tasked with executing President Donald Trump’s intelligence-related executive orders. According to an Office of the Director of National Intelligence official, DIG includes some of the best and brightest minds in the intelligence community.

So far, the ODNI official shared, DIG has exposed how the Biden administration weaponized the intelligence community against Americans by releasing formerly classified documents showing how the Biden administration targeted political opponents through its “Domestic Violent Extremism agenda.”

DIG also identified and terminated intelligence community employees who were using their roles to push ideology, and revoked the security clearances for the 51 signers of the Hunter Biden “disinformation letter,” as well as former President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and Jake Sullivan.

The task force has also led the intelligence community in locating and de-classifying documents that pertain to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Intelligence leaders testifying on worldwide threats (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

DIG has also finalized plans for organizational changes that it hopes will lead to reducing government waste and saving money.

Gabbard’s team believes the heavy pushback it is receiving is proof positive that they are on the right track to taking on the “rotted intelligence community.”

They aren’t done, however.

According to an ODNI official, DIG has plans to obtain previous intelligence community assessments of election infrastructure showing the vulnerabilities in the 2022 and 2020 elections.

DIG also plans to conduct forensic analyses of past elections to investigate vulnerabilities in the American election infrastructure, the official shared.

The task force also plans to interview whistleblowers with firsthand knowledge and evidence of the politicization of intelligence, such as the Russian Collusion hoax and the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.

“The task force’s job is to understand how the intelligence community has failed in areas like this, hold accountable those who actively allowed or participated in it, and provide recommendations for oversight that will prevent it from happening again,” the ODNI official said.

Another DIG plan: to further declassify examples of the Biden administration’s use of the “domestic terrorist” label to help Americans understand how the previous administration leveraged the security state against political dissidents.

DIG also will investigate how free speech has been restricted by looking into organizational and funding links between the intelligence community and the tech sector, the ODNI official shared, and it will also investigate how the intelligence community contributed to United States tax dollars funding gain-of-function research around the world.

These are only a few of the items that Gabbard’s task force is focused on, the official shared with The Daily Wire. A number of other sensitive and classified projects are also in the works, and when Gabbard can share more, the official said, she will.

The task force includes members of the ODNI, CIA, NSA, FBI, and the Defense Department. All members have Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance, and are required to take polygraphs within 90 days of reporting for duty. The task force is carried out and authorized under 50 USC Sec. 3024, a provision that states a duty to provide national intelligence that is “timely, objective, independent of political considerations…based on all sources available to the IC.”

The official shared with The Daily Wire that ODNI is utilizing its oversight authority, which has never been done before.

Under Gabbard’s watch, intelligence community officials “should expect that someone will be actively checking their homework, ensuring analytical integrity and unbiased collection, and compliance with constitutional and statutory mandates.”