Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced this week that she has established a task force to investigate the Intelligence Community (IC) as a means of restoring transparency and accountability.
“In order to rebuild trust in the Intelligence Community and execute the tasks required by President Trump’s intelligence-related Executive Orders, I established the Director’s Initiatives Group to bring about transparency and accountability across the IC. We are already identifying wasteful spending in real time, streamlining outdated processes, reviewing documents for declassification, and leading ongoing efforts to root out abuses of power and politicization,” Gabbard said in a statement.
“President Trump promised the American people maximum transparency and accountability. We are committed to executing the President’s vision and focusing the Intelligence Community on its core mission: ensuring our security by providing the President and policymakers with timely, apolitical, objective, relevant intelligence to inform their decision-making to ensure the safety, security and freedom of the American people,” she said.
The Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG) is already reviewing documents for potential classification, including those for COVID-19, Crossfire Hurricane, Anomalous Health Incidents, domestic surveillance under the Biden administration, and other areas, a press release explains. The task force is also involved in the declassification of assassination files.
The task force’s efforts draw upon eleven presidential orders and a memorandum on the declassification of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
Since becoming the Director of National Intelligence, Gabbard has revoked security clearances for several top Biden administration officials and the 51 former intelligence officials who falsely claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian disinformation.”
