Inside Tulsi Gabbard’s Plan To Rein In The Deep State

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard’s office unveiled new details Monday about how an unaccountable Deep State came to be embedded in the intelligence community (IC) and how she will uproot it.

A new task force in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) first announced in April has unearthed new information about the corruption of the IC, it announced. Former longtime DNI James Clapper and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan centralized their own power by elevating politically aligned operatives to influential posts at the National Intelligence Council and the President’s Daily Briefing, according to an ODNI official.

Brennan also reorganized the CIA to prioritize analysis and push operations to the backburner, empowering a few higher-ups with influence over all of its intelligence products, according to ODNI.

The new details pull back the curtain on the murky world of the IC, which after several scandals — the manufactured “Russiagate” intelligence, the bid to cast Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation, the suppression of intelligence pointing to a Wuhan lab accident — faces a crisis of confidence among Americans who wonder whether officials prioritize politics over professionalism.

Heading up the effort to reform the IC is the Director’s Intelligence Group (DIG), a task force that the ODNI announced in April to stop the weaponization of intelligence and declassify certain intelligence in the public interest. The DIG is made up of experts and analysts from the ODNI, CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, the Pentagon and the FBI.