WASHINGTON (AP) — The Office of the Director of National Intelligence will dramatically reduce its workforce and cut its budget by more than $700 million annually, the Trump administration announced Wednesday.
The move amounts to a major downsizing of the office responsible for coordinating the work of 18 intelligence agencies, including on counterterrorism and counterintelligence, as President Donald Trump has tangled with assessments from the intelligence community.
His administration also this week has revoked the security clearances of dozens of former and current officials, while last month declassifying documents meant to call into question long-settled judgments about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
“Over 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,” Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, said in a statement announcing a more than 40% workforce reduction.
She added: “Ending the weaponization of intelligence and holding bad actors accountable are essential to begin to earn the American people’s trust which has long been eroded.”
Hobbling our intelligence agencies for Putin isn’t going to win anyone over.
Daddy Putin will be very happy.
Hmmm. I wonder why they would gut intelligence agencies at the same time as they are gutting elections oversight, foreign influence, and internet intrusion detections agencies…
America downsizing intelligence seems very on brand.
Anything to weaken America and make it more vulnerable to its enemies.
The Republican way.
The Republican Party is as dead as the Whigs. This is the MAGA Party. We need to tie all their treason and corruption directly to them for all of history to remember.
Our enemies are about to fuck around and find the fuck out.
I was saying that immediately after the Alaska meeting, we would hear HitlerPig spouting Russian Propaganda, and pro- Russian policies would suddenly become important.
Here we are.
Putin: Goood . . . Goooood.
The Dead Sea Effect hits national intelligence.
That’s gonna be a hard one to fix.
Lmfao hahahahahahahha
Saboteur and traitor.
So we are still paying for something, paying even more than we used to in fact, and we aren’t going to get it.
I wonder where all that tax money is going. Hmmm. It is a mystery.
I’m happy that the intelligence office has been slashed to be proportional to the amount of intelligence in the federal government right now. I’d argue that perhaps they need to slash more to be proportional
That red carpet in Alaska rolled right on out to red square.
I’m actually ok with this one. There wasn’t much intelligence happening in that department anyway
I’m happy with this news, but I do happen to hate America and everything it stands for (except the Bill of Rights, that’s cool) so it’s weird that I’m happy with the decisions of a nationalist regime.
