Tulsi Exposes US to Foreign Threats With Job Cuts

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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