Tulsi Gabbard has announced plans to reduce the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) staff by nearly half. The move will result in annual savings exceeding $700 million.
Gabbard, in a statement released Wednesday, notes that the ODNI's initial mission was established in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and was designed to integrate information across the intelligence communities into a "timely, accurate, and apolitical" intelligence report to be used by the President and lawmakers.
They have failed in that regard.
“Over the last 20 years, ODNI has become bloated and inefficient, and the intelligence community is rife with abuse of power, unauthorized leaks of classified intelligence, and politicized weaponization of intelligence,” Gabbard stated.
“ODNI and the IC must make serious changes to fulfill its responsibility to the American people and the U.S. Constitution by focusing on our core mission: find the truth and provide objective, unbiased, timely intelligence to the President and policymakers."
She added, "Ending the weaponization of intelligence and holding bad actors accountable are essential to begin to earn the American people’s trust, which has long been eroded."
🧵 Today I’m launching ODNI 2.0 – the first step toward bringing about transformational change that is based on cutting bloated bureaucracy, rooting out deep state actors, and restoring mission focus.
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) August 20, 2025
When implementation is complete, ODNI will be more agile, efficient, and… pic.twitter.com/QlTa2wSr6y
DIVE DEEPER: Tulsi Gabbard Revokes Security Clearance From 37 Intel Officials Who 'Abused the Public Trust'
A fact sheet provided by the Director of National Intelligence's office notes that they have already reduced the ODNI by 30 percent, removing over 500 staffers from the books since Gabbard took the helm.
One of the primary targets of the restructuring at the ODNI is the Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC), which was found to have coordinated with social media giants to help censor the Hunter Biden laptop story and influence the 2020 presidential election.
"ODNI uncovered evidence of a multi-year relationship between FMIC and social media companies that was not based on scientific or objective metrics and may have been used to weaponize intelligence against Americans, undermining civil liberties," the fact sheet explains.
They report that the FMIC, in its earlier incarnation as the Election Threats Executive, worked with Twitter, Facebook, and Google to interfere in the election by squashing a significant story that would have been detrimental to Joe Biden's campaign "all under the guise of combating foreign influence activities."
The intelligence community engaged in a widespread, coordinated effort to peddle the very real Hunter Biden laptop as a figment of Russian disinformation imagination.
While the media will no doubt Jedi mind trick their viewers into believing that this is an effort to eliminate groups monitoring foreign interference in our elections, it is, in reality, a commonsense purge of a department that itself engaged in election interference.
It's also eliminating redundancy, as the fact sheet notes that "elements within the National Intelligence Council and National Counterintelligence and Security Center already monitor efforts by foreign entities to influence the American public."
Therefore, no, the Trump administration is not wantonly slashing efforts to monitor foreign influence on elections.
"ODNI 2.0" comes just 24 hours after Gabbard announced she was ripping security clearances of 37 current and former officials within the intelligence community, reportedly involved in the Russia collusion hoax.
"Being entrusted with a security clearance is a privilege, not a right," she said in a statement announcing the move. "Those in the Intelligence Community who betray their oath to the Constitution and put their own interests ahead of the interests of the American people have broken the sacred trust they promised to uphold."
"In doing so, they undermine our national security, the safety and security of the American people, and the foundational principles of our democratic republic."
Earlier this year, Gabbard announced that security clearances of 51 intelligence officers who signed a letter portraying Hunter Biden’s laptop as ‘Russian disinformation’ had officially been revoked.
For too long, the intel community has brazenly lied to the American people and helped boost Democrat causes by interfering in elections. That is going to end under Gabbard's tenure.
Editor's Note: The Deep State is working overtime to subvert President Trump's agenda and the will of the people.
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