EDITORIAL: DNI Director Tulsi Gabbard keeps her promise to depoliticize our intelligence agencies
When Tulsi Gabbard was nominated as Director of National Intelligence (DNI), one of her first promises was to take the politics out of our intelligence agencies and ensure that the lawfare committed by the Obama administration could never happen again.
Seven months in, Director Gabbard has kept that promise through her relentless work in exposing the Russia collusion hoax — a story first covered by the Washington Reporter. This is an enormous achievement that deserves commendation.
Over her tenure, the DNI has deliberately and methodically declassified information that has shown just how partisan and corrupt James Clapper, James Comey, and John Brennan were in creating a false story that the Trump campaign was compromised by Russia.
Just yesterday, DNI Gabbard released perhaps the most damning evidence of all: James Clapper admitting in writing that he was violating normal procedures to get a politicized, anti-Trump Intelligence report out early. In fact, the language Clapper uses is almost too wild to be believable, but thankfully DNI Gabbard released the email itself: “It is essential that we (CIA/NSA/FBI/ODNI) be on the same page, and are all supportive of the report – in the highest tradition of ‘that’s OUR story, and we’re sticking’ to it.’”
This exposure of the collusion hoax comes along with common-sense reforms that streamline the intelligence agencies and ensure the focus is on China and Islamic terrorists — not on targeting political opponents. She has implemented reforms to safeguard the intelligence community from being weaponized, including stricter oversight of information sharing and enhanced protocols for verifying sources.
Along the way, the Reporter has been the first to report on Gabbard’s reforms to the National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC), the Annual Threat Assessment, and more.
These changes protect the integrity of intelligence work and rebuild public trust, proving that Gabbard’s commitment to depoliticization was not mere rhetoric, but a guiding principle.
By exposing the Russia collusion hoax, Gabbard has decreased the chance a future Democratic administration can do this again. And this is no easy feat — the Deep State and bureaucrats have fought this every step of the way; Alexa Henning, Gabbard’s Deputy Chief of Staff, has relentlessly pointed out how liberal media outlets have refused to cover the series of bombshells the DNI’s office is rolling out. Doing so, of course, would delegitimize the Pulitzers that these outlets received for what is quickly being unmasked as fiction.
Olivia Coleman, Gabbard’s press secretary, has a simple — and needed — message for those seeking to avoid accountability: “Aloha Deep State.” Amen.
Director Gabbard has kept her word, and for that, she deserves our gratitude and respect. Her legacy will be a stronger, more transparent intelligence community — one that protects all Americans.