US EditionTrump, Gabbard Removed Top CIA Russia Expert After Alaska Summit: Report
President Trump and DNI Tulsi Gabbard revoked security clearances of 37 intelligence officials, accusing them of politicizing intelligence; the purge includes key experts on Russia and artificial intelligence.
- On August 19, 2025, Tulsi Gabbard, serving as Director of National Intelligence, withdrew the security clearances of 37 current and former officials, including a senior undercover CIA Russia specialist.
- Gabbard acted on President Trump's direction to remove individuals accused of weaponizing or politicizing intelligence, releasing the list publicly without full CIA consultation.
- The list exposed a covert officer who had worked over 20 years and served on the National Intelligence Council, shocking CIA colleagues and risking agency cover procedures.
- Gabbard announced the revocations in a memo naming no specific infractions, prompting criticism that the action was a politically motivated purge and risking loss of vital intelligence expertise.
- The clearance revocations and dismissals of national security professionals could weaken U.S. intelligence capabilities on Russia and Ukraine, reducing willingness to report unpalatable assessments ahead of critical diplomacy.
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Gabbard abruptly ousted CIA Russia expert days after Trump-Putin meeting
Shortly after President Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin Alaska, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard abruptly ousted a CIA expert who had helped brief Trump’s team in the lead-up to the meeting, according to several people familiar with the episode.
'Privacy Act violation?' Trump 'lapdog' Tulsi Gabbard ripped for exposing undercover agent
President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence is facing blowback for exposing an undercover operative on social media.Tulsi Gabbard, who heads up U.S. intelligence services, surprised Central Intelligence Agency officials last week when she included an undercover senior officer on a lis...
After the Putin summit in Alaska, Donald Trump takes a short process and separates herself from one of the CIA's leading experts in Russia. For the intelligence staff, the separation was completely unexpected. For more than 20 years, she was at the service of the U.S. government.
Gabbard Yanked CIA Agent's Clearance, Didn't Tell CIA: WSJ
(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images) Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revoked the security clearance of an undercover senior CIA officer without telling the CIA — a new report reveals. According to the Wall Street Journal, CIA officials were “blindsided” when Gabbard included the name of the undercover officer on a list of 37 current and former officials she stripped of security clearances last week. Most of those on the list…
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