Top spy Tulsi Gabbard launches task force to 'restore transparency' to US intel community

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: USA Today

Published 5:20 p.m. ET April 8, 2025


WASHINGTON – Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday announced the establishment of a task force charged with “restoring transparency and accountability” to the intelligence community that is already looking at declassifying information from the FBI's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Gabbard’s newly established Director’s Initiatives Group, or DIG, aims to execute President Donald Trump's executive orders designed to rebuild trust in the nation’s 18 intelligence agencies, which Trump says was diminished through politically motivated investigations into his conduct.

In a news release, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said the new initiative will start by “investigating weaponization, rooting out deep-seeded politicization, exposing unauthorized disclosures of classified intelligence, and declassifying information that serves a public interest.”

The task force will also lead assessments into the structure, resourcing and personnel of the intelligence community, including the CIA and National Security Agency, “to improve efficiency and eliminate wasteful spending.”

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/08/tulsi-gabbard-task-force-us-intel-community/82998059007/

[Skittles]

1. translation

anyone investigating Trump's - and HER - ties to Russia will be FIRED and replaced with BOOTLICKERS

[Buddyzbuddy]

2. I thought she'd already made it transparent to Putin.

[brush]

4. Check. And trump/Gabbard/Putin connect keeps rolling on.

[RandySF]

3. Russian asset Tulsi Gabbard.

[Mike Nelson]

5. I know it's not, but...

... this should be a joke. I'd prefer Maxwell Smart to Tulsi.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Well Maxwell Smart was the "good guy"

We are at the point of trusting Ludwig Von Siegfried of KAOS to Gabbard.

[Wonder Why]

19. Smart: "Would you believe all of Trump's people are honest and hard working?" How about

one who works hard?"

"Well, one who, at one time, thought honesty and hard work were good ideas?"

[infullview]

7. I feel pity for any undercover intelligence asset

That was hired when our democracy was still in tact. Not only will they be out of a job, they will also probably be killed or imprisoned.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Yes I think our intel agents/assets are in great danger.

[Botany]

9. Intelligence work when being done right is supposed to be secretive

What a stupid thing to say. Hello Malcom Nance?

[mopinko]

15. my 1st thought, too. wtf does that mean?

lady, your job is SECRETS!

[MayReasonRule]

10. Top Russian Spy Tulsi Gabbard launches task force to 'restore transparency' to US intel community

[SergeStorms]

11. Because if there's one thing our intelligence agencies want......

it's our enemies knowing exactly what they're doing. I'm so glad Tulsi has a handle on this.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Made for an SNL skit.

[elliesmandt]

13. How many?

I assume the majority of this new task force will be made up of sympathetic Russian, Chinese, and Iranian diplomats.

[orangecrush]

14. Please make it stop

You can't make this shit up.

I wonder how the Senate Intelligence Committee is going to take this?

[leftyladyfrommo]

16. Everyone already knows our secrets.

It's ridiculous.

[FailureToCommunicate]

17. "Thees is all going according to plan-ski"

[JJJ123]

18. Intel Wars

Intel basically is operated by the old $$$$ interest of the US. It is possible that they have a new consensus toward Russia. That said, it is not wise to mess with them or their interests. This combined with the tariff policies could lead to a Nixon Watergate style takedown. Well, at least that.

[Kid Berwyn]

20. Trump has long dreamed of sharing Top Secrets with Putin

In 2017…

Trump backtracks on cyber unit with Russia after harsh criticism

By Phil Stewart and Valerie Volcovici
Reuters, July 10, 2017

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday backtracked on his push for a cyber security unit with Russia, tweeting that he did not think it could happen, hours after his proposal was harshly criticized by Republicans who said Moscow could not be trusted.

Trump said on Twitter early on Sunday that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed on Friday forming "an impenetrable Cyber Security unit" to address issues like the risk of cyber meddling in elections.

The idea appeared to be a political non-starter. It was immediately scorned by several of Trump's fellow Republicans, who questioned why the United States would work with Russia after Moscow's alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.

"It's not the dumbest idea I have ever heard but it's pretty close," Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told NBC's "Meet the Press" program.

Ash Carter, who was U.S. defense secretary until the end of former Democratic President Barack Obama's administration in January, told CNN flatly: "This is like the guy who robbed your house proposing a working group on burglary."

Continues…

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/trump-backtracks-on-cyber-unit-with-russia-after-harsh-criticism-idUSKBN19U0OW/

[jmowreader]

21. "Exposing unauthorized disclosures of classified information"?

That means we’re boiling Pete Hegseth in oil out by the Lincoln Memorial, correct?

As a veteran of the Intelligence Community, I assure you the last thing you want is transparency. What’s she planning to do, order NSA and NRO to post tasking information on their website?