Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revealed she is targeting members of the intelligence community accused of making “politically motivated leaks” to the media.
Gabbard announced Friday that her department knows of and is “aggressively pursuing recent leakers from within the Intelligence Community and will hold them accountable.”
“Politically motivated leaks undermine our national security and the trust of the American people, and will not be tolerated,” she said in a statement to X.
Gabbard outlined four different examples of leaks allegedly given to press outlets, including information given about Israel and Iran to the Washington Post and information regarding Russia’s relationship with the United States leaked to NBC News.
The DNI leader said such leaks have become “commonplace with no investigation or accountability.”
“That ends now,” she said.
Gabbard also announced an investigation into workplace chatrooms used by the intelligence community after an investigation found that intelligence employees had been sending “pornographic” messages using government communications systems.
GABBARD FIRES FEDERAL INTELLIGENCE EMPLOYEES OVER SEXUALLY EXPLICIT WORK CHATS
Over 100 workers in the intelligence community who were accused of using a National Security Agency communications system to create transgender-themed chatrooms discussing “fetishes, kink, and sex” were fired by Gabbard in February.
The DNI “will thoroughly examine all chat-based groups across the IC’s classified and unclassified systems to find additional instances of gross misconduct and unprofessionalism that were identified at the NSA,” Gabbard said in a press release Friday.
