Tulsi Gabbard<\/a> on Wednesday announced what she has billed as a significant reorganization of the nation\u2019s top intelligence agency that she promised would cut the workforce by nearly 50% and \u201csave taxpayers at least $700 million per year.\u201d\n <\/p>\n\n Gabbard has already reduced the size of the ODNI\u2019s workforce by more than 500 staffers \u2014 roughly 30% \u2014 according to a fact sheet.\n <\/p>\n
\n The effort, dubbed \u201cODNI 2.0,\u201d appears to largely target a number of subagencies and offices within the office that Gabbard deems to either be redundant or to have been \u201cpoliticized,\u201d including the Foreign Malign Influence Center, which monitors efforts by foreign entities to influence the American public, and the National Counterproliferation and Biosecurity Center, which monitors the spread of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Gabbard\u2019s plan calls for shutting down those entities and putting some of their core functions and personnel elsewhere in the agency.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cOver the last 20 years, ODNI has become bloated and inefficient, and the intelligence community is rife with abuse of power, unauthorized leaks of classified intelligence, and politicized weaponization of intelligence,\u201d Gabbard said in a statement. \u201cODNI and the IC must make serious changes to fulfill its responsibility to the American people and the U.S. Constitution by focusing on our core mission: find the truth and provide objective, unbiased, timely intelligence to the President and policymakers. Ending the weaponization of intelligence and holding bad actors accountable are essential to begin to earn the American people\u2019s trust which has long been eroded.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n One element, the Strategic Futures Group \u2014 the part of the intelligence community responsible for producing long-range forecasts to guide policymakers \u2014 will be shut down because Gabbard believes \u201celements of the Intelligence Community\u2019s deep state used [the Strategic Futures Group\u201d] to push a partisan political agenda,\u201d according to the fact sheet.\n <\/p>\n
\n According to the fact sheet, Gabbard\u2019s team reviewed the group\u2019s main analytical product, an annual so-called Global Trends Report, and found it \u201cto violate professional analytic tradecraft standards in an effort to propagate a political agenda that ran counter to all of the current President\u2019s national security priorities.\u201d The fact sheet provided no evidence to support that assertion. Gabbard and her team have previously faced allegations of pressuring intelligence analysts to change their conclusions to fit their views or to support the president.\n <\/p>\n
\n It was not immediately clear how much of Gabbard\u2019s announced reorganization is already underway or has already taken place. Gabbard also sent a three-page memo to Congress on Wednesday outlining some of the proposed changes, including offices that she said will be \u201cmodernized, streamlined or sunset in Fiscal Year 2026.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, acknowledged \u201cbroad, bipartisan agreement that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is in need of thoughtful reform,\u201d but raised concerns about Gabbard\u2019s \u201ctrack record of politicizing intelligence.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Sen. Tom Cotton, the top Republican on the panel, called the effort \u201can important step towards returning ODNI to that original size, scope, and mission.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday announced what she has billed as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-98274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}