Tulsi Exposes US to Foreign Threats With Job Cuts

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National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, who was previously criticized for acting like a Russian asset, is planning to gut the agency responsible for monitoring influence from foreign governments.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence published a fact sheet saying it would begin “refocusing functions” within the supposedly “redundant” Foreign Malign Influence Center ...

ODNI claimed that FMIC had developed a “hyper-focus” on election-related issues after a 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin had “aspired” to see Donald Trump enter the White House. In the last month, Gabbard has launched a campaign to discredit this report, claiming that the Obama administration had sown a false narrative about Putin supporting Trump, even though Putin has openly admitted that he’d preferred Trump over Hillary Clinton.

ODNI’s efforts to “refocus” FMIC are particularly ironic considering that Gabbard has a history of foisting foreign misinformation on the American public herself. Gabbard previously defended Russia’s incursion into Ukraine, claiming that the U.S. had provoked Russian aggression, and that Ukraine housed U.S.-funded biolabs that were developing secret bioweapons—a piece of foreign state propaganda that earned her the reputation of being a Russian asset ...

https://newrepublic.com/post/199406/tulsi-gabbard-intelligence-cuts-foreign-influence

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1. Why did Tulsi Gabbard fire the NSA's chief data scientist?

Reporting suggests the NSA lost its top data scientist because of his loose association with facts that the DNI and other conspiracy theorists don’t like.

Aug. 22, 2025, 12:54 PM EDT
By Steve Benen

... Much of Gabbard’s work of late has been public and dramatic. She’s falsely accused some of the White House’s political foes of “treason.” She’s taken steps to slash the staff at the national intelligence office and gut the office responsible for tracking foreign adversaries’ efforts to manipulate U.S. elections. She’s scrambled to stay on Trump’s good side after the president said he didn’t care about her assessments on Iran. She’s revoked dozens of security clearances.

But Gabbard’s decision to fire the NSA’s chief data scientist is a reminder of the kind of damage she continues to do while out of the spotlight.

According to the Times’ report, which has not been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News, Lt. Gen. William Hartman, the acting NSA director, reached out to Gabbard directly before she revoked Nguyen’s security clearance — making it impossible for him to do his job — and asked for evidence that would suggest he had done anything wrong.

She ignored the request and proceeded with her plan ...

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/tulsi-gabbard-fire-nsas-chief-data-scientist-rcna226623

[DiverDave]

2. Well,

It's truly out in the open.
putin did it.

[oasis]

3. "To Russia With Love" Tulsi Gabbard.