Author: Thérèse Boudreaux
The office of the National Intelligence Director is to undergo a mass review and reduce 40% of the workforce, continuing the efforts of Trump’s administration to reduce bureaucratic bloating in federal agencies.
The terrorist attacks created after September 11, 2001, it releases as a supervisory body and the central American community, promoting integration and intelligence communication in IC.
However, in recent years, it has been released from the main interest, according to the director of the National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who said that she introduces “Recover 2.0” to “make serious changes”.
This includes a reduction in working strength by at least 40%, eliminating “unnecessary missions, functions and staff”, directing funds to the national priorities of President Donald Trump’s intelligence, and the end of “politicization and weapons of intelligence”.
“Over the past 20 years, it has become disgusted and inefficient, and the intelligence community is full of abuse of power, unauthorized leaks of classified intelligence and politicized intelligence weapons,” Gabbard said on Friday in a press release.
“Under the direction of President Trump, 2.0 is the beginning of a new era focusing on our country’s service, completing our basic mission of national security with perfection, always based on the US constitution and ensuring the security, security and freedom of the American nation.”
The functions of the foreign center of the Malicious Influence of the National Center for Biological Control and Security and the Center for Integration of Intelligence Cybercrime will be “focused again” Attached information sheet Notes, while the external research council and the Futures strategic group will be completely eliminated. Gabbard claimed that the latter entities “operated as knots for injecting guerrilla priorities into intelligence products.”
Gabbard’s plan also includes nationwide reforms, including the improvement of the contract body for companies cooperating with IC and increasing two -way access to information with US law enforcement agencies.
All in all, the changes will be expected to save taxpayers at least $ 700 million a year.
Republicans accused IC under the former democratic administration of the unfair attack of Trump during the first presidential term. Intelligence documents that have recently been rejected Gabbard Obama’s administration consciously fabricated reports Trump’s accusation of calling Russia in the 2016 election. IC officials also allegedly put pressure on officers who raised reservations about the narrative of Trump-Russia.
IC was also under fire For many operational and safety failures leading to the first attempt to kill the then presidential candidate Trump in 2024.
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Thérèse Boudreaux is a reporter covering the federal government Middle squareWith focusing at the congress. Earlier, she covered the states of Michigan and Wisconsin, with an emphasis on elections in 2024. Thérèse Boudreaux graduated from politics in Hillsdale College in May 2024, where she produced award -winning radio journalism.
Photo “Office of the National Intelligence Building” National Intelligence office office.
