Key points
- Intelligence community task force to restore transparency: Gabbard
- Group investigating “weaponisation” within the intelligence community
- Trump promised maximum transparency: National Intelligence chief
ISLAMABAD: US National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard has said she was creating a special task force to investigate the intelligence community to strengthen “transparency and accountability” across federal agencies.
“President Trump promised the American people maximum transparency and accountability. We are committed to executing the President’s vision,” Gabbard said.
Her office said in a statement that the newly formed Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG) will carry out President Donald Trump’s executive order focused on “rebuilding trust” in the US intelligence apparatus.
“President Trump promised the American people maximum transparency and accountability. We are committed to executing the President’s vision,” said Gabbard, a former congresswoman and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate who now leads the nation’s intelligence agencies under the Trump administration.
“Already hard at work”
She added that the DIG is “already hard at work” and aims to “expose the truth and root out abuses of power and politicization.”
The DIG is tasked with overseeing operations at all 18 US intelligence agencies. Its priorities include preventing political bias, accelerating the declassification of documents in the public interest, and identifying wasteful or outdated government spending.
“We are already identifying wasteful spending in real time, streamlining outdated processes, reviewing documents for declassification, and leading ongoing efforts to root out abuses of power and politicization,” the statement read.
Classified documents
Among the first areas of review are documents related to the origins of COVID-19, the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into alleged ties between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia, health incidents affecting US diplomats and personnel overseas, and federal actions taken against American citizens, the Anadolu news agency reported.
President Trump promised “maximum transparency and accountability” — and the new task force is his tool to deliver it, she said.
