National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard has moved the president's brief daily staff from the CIA to the director of National Intelligence's office, Fox News Digital confirmed.
A senior intelligence source told Fox News Digital that the director of National Intelligence has always “controlled” the president's daily briefs (PDBs), and Gabbard “is physically moving from the CIA to ODNI with streamlined efforts and continuity of the workforce.”
According to the Intelligence Community, the President's Daily Brief (PDB) is a daily summary of high-level all-source information and analysis on national security issues created for the president and key cabinet members and advisors. It will be coordinated and delivered by ODNI along with contributions from the CIA and other elements of the Intelligence Reports community. It has been presented to the President since 1946.
Gabbard fires “deep state” of the National Intelligence Council to eradicate “Intel's politicization.”
The move comes after Gabbard moved the National Intelligence Council from the CIA to ODNI on Tuesday. The NIC has always been a DNI component, according to senior officials. ”
“It makes sense that they are physically placed in the DNI,” a CIA official told Fox News Digital.
Another senior intelligence official pointed to Gabbard's confirmation hearing, and she said, “it is to provide timely, accurate and practical intelligence as the president's primary intelligence advisor.”
“The PDB staff and NIC are the main equipment that feeds this advisory material, so getting her physically close will give her the best possible support,” the official said. “In other words, by putting them closer, she gives her delays and faster responsiveness, and fulfills her role as a principal intelligence advisor.”
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Officials added: “Both moves are to provide a more timely, practical intelligence to the president.”
The move comes as Gabbard took steps to eradicate leaks and insisted on a “deep state holdover” that officials politicize intellectual analyses and say they are “trying to sabotage President Trump's agenda.”
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So far, Gabbard has referred three intelligence reporting experts to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution on the leak of classified information. Fox News Digital first reported on these criminal referrals in April.
An ODNI official at the time reportedly leaked information to Fox News Digital by intelligence community experts classified as the Washington Post and the New York Times.
Fox News Digital on Tuesday reported exclusively that Gabbard had fired a senior official leading the whistleblower-led National Intelligence Council, who said he was “funny against Trump.”
Gabbard fired Mike Collins, who served as the deputy chairman of the National Intelligence Council, and his vice-chairman Maria Langan Liekhov told Fox News Digital on Tuesday.
Fox News Digital contacted Langan-Riekhof for comment and did not immediately respond. We were unable to find Collins contact information immediately.
Collins has also been receiving whistleblower complaints against him for political bias and “deliberately undermining the next Trump administration,” officials said.
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They added that Collins is closely linked to Michael Morell, former deputy director of the CIA who worked to write public letters in 2020, claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop “has all the classic purposes of Russian information operations.”
Regarding Langan-reikhof, authorities said she was a “significant advocate” of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and someone who argues that whistleblowers are “fundamental opposition to Trump.”
