Tulsi Gabbard rips apart 'wokeness' in national intelligence

Daily Mail​

02-05-2025

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is celebrating how many DEI policies she has been able to cancel in the Trump administration's first 100 days.
During a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Gabbard, 44, told all the president's people that her agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), is about 25 percent 'smaller and more lean' than when she started.
'During President Trump's first 100 days in office, I eliminated DEI programs and policies at ODNI, and revoked security clearances and access to classified information for numerous individuals who abused public trust for political purposes,' Gabbard said in a statement provided to the Daily Mail.
'We are saving taxpayers millions and ensuring President Trump's policymakers receive unbiased intelligence assessments to ensure the safety, security, and freedom of the American people.'
The director has already canceled all DEI initiatives at the agency, cut over $150 million in spending, shuttered explicit employee chatrooms called the 'NSA sex chats' and more, ODNI staff shared with the Daily Mail.
The agency also pulled security clearances from Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Antony Blinken, Alvin Bragg and many other opponents of Trump.
Now, the Daily Mail can exclusively report that Gabbard shut down the NSA's 'Pride Glossary,' an appendix 'filled with sexually explicit DEI terminology unrelated to protecting American security,' ODNI staff say.
The glossary could be accessed by employees on intelligence servers, the lists were another canceled vestige of the previous pro-DEI Biden administration.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has shuttered all DEI programs within the ODNI, her aides told Daily Mail
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council Executive Director Scott Turner and the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard attend a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden on Thursday
The Daily Mail can also first report that the DNI is ending all non-merit-based recruitment for intelligence community professionals, a push prompted by an executive action signed within days of Trump taking office.
According to a Biden-era article, titled 'Visibility Matters' in the Intelligence Community,' that remains up on the ODNI site, DEI was a major factor in hiring.
'ODNI seeks to hire and retain a diverse workforce to ensure that all Americans who want to join the ranks and serve their country are able to do so, without fear of retribution for living their truth,' a the 2022 release said.
'As the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the leader of all 18 agencies, ODNI is committed to lead the IC in advancing an inclusive, diverse, equitable and safe work place environment for employees to thrive,' it continued.
The agency has also referred at least three leakers for prosecution at the Department of Justice, 'with more on the way,' ODNI staff told the Daily Mail.
Addressing the extent of the diversity and inclusion policies on the Megyn Kelly show, Gabbard said when she arrived at the agency she was shocked at how many agency resources were allocated to DEI.
'When I came in here... DEI was such a priority, that it was baked into the incentive structure for people to advance professionally,' the former Hawaii congresswoman told the journalist.
'And I would imagine it was very similar across the federal government, where some employees told me that they were put in a position where they had to spend half of their time working on DEI initiatives in order for them to be able to advance professionally,' Gabbard added.
President Trump and DNI Tulsi Gabbard in the Oval Office
A pride flag flies outside of the FBI headquarters
Gabbard said in a recent interview with Megyn Kelly that the Biden administration seemed to center their entire administration round DEI initiatives
'When we look at why this was a priority for the President, this is not some superficial thing,' the DNI told Kelly. 'There are national security implications to what the Biden administration was doing in centering almost their entire administration around DEI initiatives.'
Eliminating the ODNI's DEI projects will save the the agency approximately $20 million annually, aides tell the Daily Mail.
The ODNI's Human Capital Office has also been shuttered, which will save up to $150 million annually.
In February it was shockingly revealed that employees in the intelligence community were using a chat room to discuss sex and gender reassignment surgeries.
An image posted by the CIA on X celebrating pride month in 2023
Screenshots show workers casually referred to how much they enjoyed having sex upon having gender surgery in their work chat, saying 'I've found that I like being penetrated (never liked it before GRS), but all the rest is just as important as well.'
Another bragged that having the surgery allowed them 'to wear leggings or bikinis without having to wear a gaff under it.'
Gabbard vowed at the time that 'those involved will be held accountable.'
Over 100 workers were fired as a result of the investigation.