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EXCLUSIVE: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has fired the apical officials starring the National Intelligence Council — whom whistleblowers picture arsenic "radically opposed to Trump" — and has moved the bureau to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, oregon ODNI, to guarantee she tin artifact immoderate "politicization of intelligence," Fox News Digital has learned.
Gabbard fired Mike Collins, who was serving arsenic the acting seat of the National Intelligence Council, and his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof, Tuesday, elder quality officials told Fox News Digital.
Fox News Digital reached retired Langan-Riekhof for remark and did not instantly perceive back, and couldn't instantly find interaction accusation for Collins.
Collins besides has whistleblower complaints against him for governmental bias and "deliberately undermining the incoming Trump administration," officials said.
They added that Collins was intimately associated with Michael Morrell, the erstwhile lawman manager of the CIA who worked to constitute a nationalist missive successful 2020 claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop had "all the classical earmarks of a Russian accusation operation," and to get signatures from apical ex-intelligence officials.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has fired the apical officials starring the National Intelligence Council — whom whistleblowers picture arsenic "radically opposed to Trump." (John McDonnell/The Associated Press)
As for Langan-Reikhof, officials said she has been a "key advocate" for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and is idiosyncratic 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 clasp accountable immoderate improper enactment and politicization of intelligence," Fox News Digital has learned.
Many intel assemblage leakers are "career bureaucrats that are entrenched successful Washington politics," officials said.
"It takes clip to weed them retired and occurrence them," 1 authoritative told Fox News Digital, adding that "plans to destruct non-essential offices wrong ODNI that we cognize are lodging heavy authorities leakers are underway."
A CIA authoritative told Fox News Digital Tuesday that the National Intelligence Council "has ever been a DNI component. It makes consciousness for them to beryllium physically located astatine DNI."
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The moves travel arsenic Gabbard has taken steps to basal retired leakers and alleged "deep authorities holdovers" who officials accidental are politicizing quality investigation and "trying to sabotage President Trump’s agenda."
So far, Gabbard has referred 3 quality assemblage professionals to the Department of Justice for transgression prosecution implicit alleged leaks of classified information. Fox News Digital archetypal reported connected those transgression referrals successful April.
An ODNI authoritative astatine that clip told Fox News Digital that the quality assemblage professionals allegedly leaked classified accusation to the Washington Post and The New York Times.
The moves travel arsenic Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has taken steps to basal retired leakers and alleged "deep authorities holdovers" who officials accidental are politicizing quality investigation and "trying to sabotage President Trump’s agenda." (Getty Images)
"Politicization of our quality and leaking classified accusation puts our nation’s information astatine hazard and indispensable end," Gabbard told Fox News Digital successful April. "Those who leak classified accusation volition beryllium recovered and held accountable to the fullest grade of the law."
A elder quality authoritative told Fox News Digital Tuesday that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is investigating 12 different quality officials implicit alleged leaks of classified information.
For example, officials told Fox News Digital that ODNI fired 2 bureaucrats successful aboriginal May who they accidental leaked accusation from an appraisal astir the convulsive Tren de Aragua pack to the Times. Officials said those bureaucrats were "CIA detailees" who were fired for "not pursuing due procedures."
In April, Gabbard established a task unit to reconstruct transparency and accountability successful the quality community. Fox News Digital archetypal reported connected the Director’s Initiative Group (DIG), which started by investigating weaponization wrong the quality community.
Officials said the radical volition besides enactment to basal retired politicization and exposure unauthorized disclosures of classified intelligence. In addition, it volition enactment to declassify accusation "that serves a nationalist interest."
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Gabbard besides has held to relationship employees who participated successful sexually explicit National Security Agency chatrooms, and is pursuing enactment against those who person made unauthorized leaks of classified accusation wrong the quality community.
All the while, officials person complained astir the clasp up successful confirming quality nominees, which they accidental are "essential" to enacting the Trump agenda.
Currently, ODNI is without its nominees for main lawman manager of nationalist intelligence; National Counterterrorism Center; National Counterintelligence and Security Center; quality inspector general; and wide counsel; among others.
Brooke Singman is simply a governmental analogous and newsman for Fox News Digital, Fox News Channel and FOX Business.
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