FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ODNI News Release No. 05-25
April 8, 2025
DNI Gabbard Establishes Task Force to Restore Trust in the Intelligence Community and End Weaponization of Government Against Americans
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard announced the establishment of a new task force charged with restoring transparency and accountability to the Intelligence Community (IC).
Her newly-established Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG) is already hard at work executing President Trump's Executive Orders aimed at rebuilding trust in the IC — starting with investigating weaponization, rooting out deep-seeded politicization, exposing unauthorized disclosures of classified intelligence, and declassifying information that serves a public interest. The DIG is also leading assessments of IC structure, resourcing, and personnel to improve efficiency and eliminate wasteful spending.
“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 We are already identifying wasteful spending in real time, streamlining outdated processes, reviewing documents for declassification, and leading ongoing efforts to root out abuses of power and politicization.
“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,” said DNI Gabbard.
Under the direction of DNI Gabbard, the work of the DIG is well underway and has thus far implemented the following actions:
- Reviewing documents for potential declassification — including information related to COVID-19 origins, Crossfire Hurricane, Anomalous Health Incidents, the Biden Administration’s domestic surveillance and censorship actions against Americans, and more.
- Identifying wasteful spending, inefficiencies, and bloated bureaucracy.
- Declassification and release of the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassination files.
Per POTUS’s directive, DNI Gabbard has taken steps to restore trust in the Intelligence Community by revoking security clearances for individuals who no longer have an active role in national security — including former President Biden, Liz Cheney, and Hillary Clinton.
Further, the Director held employees who participated in sexually-explicit NSA chatrooms accountable, and has begun pursuing unauthorized leaks of classified information within the IC.
See the full list of the related EOs and Presidential actions driving the DIG’s efforts below:
- EO 14147 on Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government
- EO 14149 on Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship
- EO 14151 on Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing
- EO 14152 on Holding Former Government Officials Accountable for Election Interference and Improper Disclosure of Sensitive Governmental Information
- EO 14158 on Establishing and Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency”
- EO 14176 on the Declassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- EO 14210 on Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative
- EO 14217 on Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
- EO 14219 on Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Deregulatory Initiative
- EO 14248 on Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections
- EO 14249 on Protecting America’s Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
- Presidential Memorandum on the Immediate Declassification of Materials Related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation
Read more about the DIG in a Fox News exclusive.
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