Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has formed a new internal task force, the Director’s Initiative Group (DIG), to promote transparency and accountability throughout the intelligence community. The group’s first priority is investigating potential weaponization within U.S. intelligence agencies.
According to officials, DIG will also address politicization, unauthorized leaks of classified information, and push for the declassification of material that serves the public interest. Among the documents under review are records related to the origins of COVID-19, the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King Jr., the initial Trump-Russia investigation, anomalous health incidents, and Biden-era domestic surveillance and censorship.
In addition to its investigative role, DIG is also conducting assessments of the intelligence community’s structure, workforce, and budget, with the goal of cutting waste and improving efficiency.
“President Trump promised the American people maximum transparency and accountability,” Gabbard said. “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.”
Gabbard has also taken action in response to revelations of sexually explicit content shared in internal NSA chatrooms. She has held employees involved accountable and is pursuing further disciplinary measures for those who leaked classified information.
In February, Gabbard accused the Biden administration of having long ignored inappropriate conduct on internal messaging platforms across intelligence agencies. She claimed the chatrooms were allowed to exist due to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies.
