FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ODNI News Release No. 02-25
March 14, 2025
DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE TULSI GABBARD ANNOUNCES INVESTIGATION INTO IC CHATS, LEAKS, LAUNCHES WHISTLEBLOWER HOTLINE
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following the discovery of obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit chats on Intelink, today Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Gabbard is launching a formal investigation into all Intelink Top Secret chat rooms and other Intelligence Community (IC) collaboration platforms with similar features. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) will thoroughly examine all chat-based groups across the IC’s classified and unclassified systems to find additional instances of gross misconduct and unprofessionalism that were identified at the NSA.
Any IC employees or contractors that are found to have violated the terms of use during this review will be held accountable. This follows DNI Gabbard’s directive from last month to the heads of the IC agencies to fire and revoke the security clearances of all IC employees who engaged in these obscene and sexually explicit chats.
“Our nation’s Intelligence Community must be focused on our national security mission,” said Director of National Intelligence Gabbard. “Politically motivated leaks undermine our national security and the trust of the American people and will not be tolerated. Unfortunately, such leaks have become commonplace with no investigation or accountability. That ends now. We know of and are aggressively pursuing recent leakers from within the Intelligence Community and will hold them accountable."
Some recent examples of unauthorized leaks within the IC:
- A leaker who has been sharing classified information with the Huffington Post
- A leaker within the IC sharing information on Iran/Israel
- A leaker within the IC sharing information about the US-Russia relationship
- A leaker sharing information on NCSC activities and actions
This is not to be interpreted as a statement on whether any of the information that these leakers are purporting to expose is accurate. Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such.
There are many patriots in the IC that have reached out to DNI Gabbard and her team directly, explaining that they have raised concerns on these issues in the past but they have been ignored. That will no longer be the case.
As she promised during her confirmation, the ODNI has established a transparency line that comes directly to her office both classified and unclassified that the IC can email.
At her direction, DNI Gabbard will ensure the IC refocuses its mission to protecting the safety, security, and freedom of the American people and rid the IC of the DEI nonsense the Biden administration pushed for four years.
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