Exclusive-Trump's spy chief Gabbard winds down intelligence task force


FILE PHOTO: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks during a press briefing, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 23, 2025. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura/File Photo

WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - U.S. spy ⁠chief Tulsi Gabbard told Reuters on Tuesday that she has wound down a task force she launched last year with the declared goal of rooting ⁠out politicization from intelligence agencies, but which critics accused of being a tool for partisan attacks by the Trump administration.

Gabbard said in a statement ‌she had reassigned members of the Director's Initiatives Group elsewhere in her agency. Her comments to Reuters came after two sources said the decision to wrap up the DIG, as it was commonly known, was taken after alleged missteps.

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