Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard has urged the Justice Department to prosecute the alleged leakers of classified information.
“Politicization of our intelligence and leaking classified information puts our nation’s security at risk and must end. Those who leak classified information will be found and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law,” Gabbard wrote on X. “Today, I referred two intelligence community LEAKS to the Department of Justice for criminal referral, with a third criminal referral on its way, which includes the recent illegal leak to the Washington Post.”
Gabbard called the leakers “deep-state criminals,” explaining that the information was shared for “partisan political purposes to undermine POTUS’ agenda.”
According to a report from Fox News, leakers allegedly shared information with the Washington Post and the New York Times. The leaked information discussed matters surrounding the Tren de Aragua gang.
“The weaponization of intelligence to undermine the President’s agenda is an assault on democracy. Those behind this illegal leak of classified intelligence, twisted and manipulated to convey the exact opposite finding, will be held accountable under the full force of the law. Rooting out this politicization of intelligence is exactly what President Trump campaigned on and what Americans overwhelmingly voted for,” Gabbard wrote on X earlier this week, addressing the leak. “The Office of the Director of National Intelligence fully supports the assessment that the foreign terrorist organization, Tren De Aragua, is acting with the support of the Maduro Regime, and thus subject to arrest, detention and removal as alien enemies of the United States.”
Gabbard’s demands that the DOJ prosecute the matter come as she has established a task force to investigate the Intelligence Community (IC) as a means of restoring transparency and accountability.
