Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard formed the Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG) in April, a task force of experts from ODNI, CIA, FBI, DOD, DIA, and NSA, to execute President Trump’s executive orders reforming the intelligence community (IC). The DIG aims to restore trust by investigating politicization, declassifying documents, and cutting inefficiencies.
The DIG recently declassified Biden administration documents labeling Americans opposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates as “domestic violent extremists.” A 2021 report by the National Counterterrorism Center, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security warned, “The availability of a vaccine for all school-age children might spur conspiracy theories and perceptions that schools will vaccinate children against parents’ will and may increase the potential for violence.” Gabbard criticized this targeting of dissenters.
The task force revoked security clearances for figures like Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, and Adam Kinzinger, citing misuse of authority. It’s also eliminated wasteful DEI programs, declassified files on the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK, and planned IC downsizing.
The DIG is analyzing 2020 and 2022 election vulnerabilities and interviewing whistleblowers about politicized intelligence, including alleged Russian collusion pushed by former DNI James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan, as well as the Hunter Biden laptop cover-up. It’s probing IC-tech industry ties that may have curbed free speech and, per Trump’s May order, investigating U.S. funding of gain-of-function research abroad.
More declassifications are expected as Gabbard pushes transparency and accountability.
This story originally appeared on Breitbart.