Gabbard fires top National Intelligence Council officials [View all]
Source: msn/The Hill
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard fired two top officials at the National Intelligence Council, purging leaders amid what the office called an effort to address “weaponization” of intelligence. Gabbard removed the acting head of the council, Mike Collins, as well as his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof.
It’s a big shift at an entity the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) bills as part of the “analytic arm” of the intelligence community, with tasks including coordinating with policymakers. In addition to the removal of the two aides, Gabbard also uprooted the council from its office space at the CIA, returning it to quarters within the ODNI. “The director is working alongside President Trump to end the weaponization and politicization of the intelligence community,” an ODNI spokesperson told The Hill. Fox News first reported the moves.
According to Fox, Collins was associated with Michael Morell, former deputy director of the CIA, who was among the former intelligence officials who signed a letter casting doubt on the discovery of Hunter Biden’s laptop, saying it had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
The firings come just days after the council released, through a Freedom of Information Act request, an assessment contradicting Trump administration claims that the Tren de Aragua gang is coordinating with the Venezuelan government. In doing so, it undercut a key basis for President Trump’s invocation of wartime powers to remove people to a Salvadoran prison.
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