Gabbard finding 'entrench problems' in CIA
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In a revealing Thursday evening appearance on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle, U.S. National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard pulled no punches about the state of the CIA under her newly minted leadership. Speaking with host Laura Ingraham, Gabbard described the agency’s entrenched problems as exceeding her already grim expectations, painting a picture of a bureaucracy in dire need of the Trump administration’s corrective hand.
Gabbard, confirmed to her post on February 12, 2025, stepped into a role preceded by a curious move from the CIA. Reports surfaced that the agency offered payouts to its entire workforce just before her arrival. Trump administration officials, as cited by The Wall Street Journal, framed this as a clear message: those unwilling to align with President Donald Trump’s agenda should seek employment elsewhere.
When Ingraham pressed Gabbard to rate the “swampiness” of the intel community on a scale of one to ten, the former congresswoman didn’t mince words. “I knew it was bad coming in. It’s worse than I thought in a lot of different ways,” she said. “I’d love to come back and talk to you as we pull back the layers of getting rid of the weaponization within the intelligence community, the politicization and those who are frankly trying to shape intelligence according to their own view or their own agenda. Rather than just providing our policymakers and the president with that unbiased, accurate, timely intelligence that they need to make their decisions.”
Her comments point to a cleanup effort that aligns seamlessly with Trump’s pledge to root out inefficiencies and partisan leanings in government. Gabbard’s focus on delivering unvarnished intelligence to the president suggests a return to fundamentals — an intelligence apparatus that serves the nation, not personal biases.
Gabbard didn’t stop at generalities. She zeroed in on a glaring example of past failures under the Biden administration, tying it directly to national security lapses. “This example that we just talked about, where the Biden administration released these known or suspected terrorists or those with links to ISIS terrorists back into our country, you look at the dereliction of duty of that,” she said. “But you also recognize this is one form of that politicization, where the Biden administration was so afraid of being labeled Islamophobes, they took this pro-Islamist bent in endangering our own national security that we see in that example.”
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The Trump administration appears to be running into the same kind of opposition inside the intelligence agencies that it has been getting from the Democrats in Congress. This would allow Gabbard and the Trump administration to bring in a new team that would be more supportive of their agenda while improving the work product.
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