DNI Gabbard pledges to slash agency, stay focused on the mission

The Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced the agency’s transformation on Wednesday, which will reduce the “ODNI” swollen by more than 40 % by the end of the year and the provision of taxpayers more than $ 700 million annually, all with the implementation of the mission of national security and basic intelligence “in the most flexible, effective and effective ways.”

On Wednesday, Gabbard announced what she described as a “long -time” transformation that would restore ODNI and remove the offices that participated in the politicization of intelligence.

Gabbard is creating a new business group for the intelligence community to restore transparency

“Over the past twenty years, Odni has become enlarged and ineffective, and the intelligence community is teeming with the use of power, unauthorized leaks of classified intelligence, and bad weapons of intelligence,” Gabbard said. “ODNI and IC must make serious changes to achieve its responsibility towards the American people and the American constitution by focusing on our basic mission: finding the truth and providing objective intelligence and unbiased in a timely man

“Under the leadership of President Trump, ODNI 2.0 is the beginning of a new era that focuses on serving our country, fulfilling the basic national security task with excellence, and is always based on the United States’ constitution, ensuring safety, security and freedom of the American people.”

ODNI was created for the first time after the terrorist attacks on September 11 and its systematic failure through the intelligence community. The purpose of ODNI was to integrate intelligence from all elements of the intelligence community and provide it to ensure the intelligence provided to the president and policy makers “in time, accurate and non -political.”

“Unfortunately, after two decades, ODNI decreased in the fulfillment of the state,” said an ODNI spokesman.

ODNI 2.0 has been appointed to eliminate “frequent tasks, jobs and employees”, and it is scheduled to “critical investments” in areas that support Trump’s national intelligence priorities.

Gabbard is creating a new business group for the intelligence community to restore transparency

ODNI officials said that ODNI 2.0 will focus on rebuilding confidence, exposing politicization and weapons to intelligence, accountability of bad actors, providing US tax dollars, and focusing on their “basic mission”, which is “safety, security and freedom of the American people.”

As part of this effort, Gabbard closes the Odini Reston campus and transferred the National Intelligence Council to Odini’s main campus, which will ensure that all basic intelligence functions are kept “under one roof”, which officials say “will be” savings “, and will guarantee” greater efficiency, supervision, and integration through Odini and. “.

Gabbad also leads reforms at the community level of “effective and effective operations.” Gabbard is expected to issue instructions to create a simplified contracting authority for companies that follow emerging technologies, which have already approved to work with IC to provide services quickly.

Officials said Gabbard also leads efforts at the IC level “to rebalance and improve” civil workforce and contracting “to increase bloating, increase analytical ability, remove positions, eliminate politicization and analytical bias, accelerate information exchange, and increase efficiency to ensure the success of the task.

Meanwhile, Gabbard also ended the non -fashionable employment for professionals in the intelligence community.

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As for the ODNI components, the National Center for Combating Terrorism builds the ability to increase the exchange of information in two directions between the application of federal, state and local law to secure borders and societies.

As for the National Center for Combating Cancellation and Security, Gabbard calls for a renewed focus on reforming security clearance, defrauding anti -espionage threats, supervising investigations and investigations that are not authorized for classified information.