US EditionGabbard slashing intelligence office workforce, cutting budget by more than $700 million
Tulsi Gabbard's ODNI restructuring aims to eliminate redundancies and politicization, closing multiple centers and cutting workforce by about 40% to save over $700 million annually.
- On Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced ODNI 2.0, unveiling a months-long overhaul including plans to cut the workforce by up to 40%.
- The months-long programmatic review found politicization and weaponization in ODNI, prompting Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to revoke security clearances of the 37 officials earlier this week.
- The plan will shutter several centers, including the Foreign Malign Influence Center, National Counterproliferation and Biosecurity Center, and Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center, while ODNI's staff will shrink to around 1,300 from roughly 1,800, cutting 550 to 700 staffers next month.
- Employees will be notified immediately and separations are scheduled to occur by September 30, with officials projecting ODNI 2.0 will save taxpayers more than $700 million annually and consider a $1 billion spending reallocation.
- The overhaul represents the largest ODNI change since its 2004 creation after the 9/11 attacks and officials say the reforms could soon expand across the 18-organization intelligence community .
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Gabbard Announces Overhaul of ODNI, With Budget and Personnel Cuts
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) will undertake major personnel and budget cuts, with the organization on course to lose more than $700 million annually, the Trump administration announced Wednesday evening. “Over the last 20 years, ODNI has become bloated and inefficient, and the intelligence community is rife with abuse of power, unauthorized leaks of classified intelligence, and politicized weaponization of intellige…
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US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard said Wednesday she will make heavy cuts to her office, which she declared has "fallen short" of fulfilling its mandate and is "rife with abuse of power."
Top US spy Gabbard announces staff cut of over 40% from her office
WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday announced the first major overhaul of her office since its creation, slashing personnel by more than 40% by October 1 and saving more than $700 million per year.
'Incomprehensible': Ex-officials blast Gabbard over plans to drastically shrink top agency
President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has a plan to cut the staff at the nation's top intelligence aggregating agency by 50 percent — and it's causing bitter divides, reported Politico on Wednesday."The move, dubbed ODNI 2.0, is the latest effort by the Trump adm...
Gabbard Leads Overhaul at ODNI, Vowing Less Politicization
Declaring that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has become “bloated” and has “failed to fulfill its mandate,” DNI Tulsi Gabbard announced Wednesday the first structural overhaul of the agency since its founding 20 years ago, in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, as a layer of authority over the 18 other agencies that comprise America’s $100 billion intelligence community. “ODNI and the intelligence community must make serious c…
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