Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Wednesday that her office shut down this week the panel known as the Director's Initiative Group (DIG), a high-profile intelligence reform task force, less than a year after its creation, as Gabbard faces scrutiny over a whistleblower complaint.
Gabbard's Office of the Director of National Intelligence established the DIG in April 2025 to examine systemic issues within the U.S. intelligence community. The group's mandate included identifying and addressing what Gabbard described as the "politicization" of intelligence gathering, recommending ways to reduce spending, and evaluating whether certain high-profile reports should be declassified.
According to The Wall Street Journal, an anonymous U.S. intelligence official submitted a complaint to the Office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General in May 2025. Based on interviews with officials familiar with the matter conducted by the Journal, the allegations center on an intercepted National Security Agency phone call between two foreign intelligence operatives that included a discussion of a person close to President Donald Trump.
The whistleblower claimed that Gabbard chose to limit the routine dissemination of that intelligence and instead routed it to her office and the White House Chief of Staff, allegedly bypassing normal channels. When an intelligence community employee files a complaint under the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act,...
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