Gabbard’s team has sought spy agency data to enforce Trump’s agenda

The Washington Post ^ | July 8, 2025 11:47 a.m. EDT | Ellen Nakashima , Warren P. Strobel and Aaron Schaffer

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The Director’s Initiative Group has expressed an interest in gaining access to emails and chat logs of the largest U.S. intelligence agencies to root out “weaponization,” according to multiple people familiar with the effort.

A special team created by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has expressed a desire to gain access to emails and chat logs of the largest U.S. spy agencies with the aim of using AI tools to ferret out what the administration deems as efforts to undermine its agenda, according to several people familiar with the matter.

The mission of the Director’s Initiative Group, or DIG, is to enforce President Donald Trump’s executive orders to end “weaponization” of the federal government, declassify documents and halt diversity, equity and inclusion programs, according to Gabbard’s office.

So far, none of the U.S. spy agencies approached has transferred the data, several people said.

The unprecedented interest in data by officials at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence startled some senior agency officials, who have expressed concerns about the counterintelligence and privacy risks of aggregating what could be a large amount of sensitive information that may include references to intercepts of electronic communications on overseas targets, said several U.S. officials and others familiar with aspects of the effort. Like most people interviewed for this report, they spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.

“They wanted access to everybody’s systems,” one of the people said, adding that the idea just seemed “naive.” Some senior intelligence officials are also privately concerned that the effort could be used to pursue perceived disloyalty to the Trump administration, including to identify individuals who implemented the policies of the previous administration. Gabbard’s press secretary, Olivia Coleman, disputed The Post’s reporting. “The truth is, under the...”

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Gabbard’s press secretary, Olivia Coleman, disputed The Post’s reporting. “The truth is, under the leadership of President Trump, DNI Gabbard and her team at ODNI are daring to do what no other has done before — expose the truth and end the politicization and weaponization of intelligence against Americans.”

Can't have that.

[DesertRhino]

Tulsi is the Director of National Intelligence. And intelligence agencies are giving her the finger.

Pretty much we are a police state beyond any civilian control of the agencies.

[Carry_Okie]

This cuts straight through to such silly claims such as 'Hillary erased those 30,000 emails,' when the NSA had them the entire time.

Whose NSA is it? If it doesn't belong to the American people as accessible to our elected agents, we should blow up that building in Utah, along with its equivalents.

[Track9]

What’s good for the gander is good for the goose.

[oldbrowser]

aim of using AI tools to ferret out what the administration deems as efforts to undermine it's agenda

The agenda of the duly elected president, as compared to the agenda of the unelected/intrenched deep state ?

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Tulsi I trust. Blondi, not so much.

[MtnClimber]

Obama (Zer0) and Biden have done this to the extreme. I would laugh in the face of any leftist complaining that Trump is doing it.

[rlmorel]

They say this like it’s a bad thing.

Gee, who would’ve thought… Using government resources to root out government malfeasance!

[RummyChick]

How about finding Alex Acosta’s incoming emails during the Epstein saga that just magically disappeared

[Jacquerie]

In the business world, if an employee takes measures contrary to the direction/goals of the boss, said employee is fired. Right away.

Presidents ARE the executive branch. Hiring/firing is fundamental to exec authority.

Ferreting out non-players is essential to running the exec branch.

[mac_truck]

What’s interesting is that what DIG is requesting is not classified, but resides on servers that does contain classified information.

Ignoring the obvious fact that ODNI has the proper clearance, the article states these agencies are “concerned” some of their classified data will be exposed if access to DIG is given.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

“Enforce Trump’s agenda” = depoliticize and end the weaponization of the intelligence agencies.

[Carry_Okie]

They’ve got all of it. What they need is the metadata to make the search reasonable in scope.

It’s one awfully big haystack.

[MayflowerMadam]

“So far, none of the U.S. spy agencies approached has transferred the data”

There are no words..

[montag813]

So far, none of the U.S. spy agencies approached has transferred the data, several people said.

I thought her position supersedes them. No? I guess the Deep State scumbags are still running the spook show in D.C.

[RummyChick]

No, they don’t. I suspect Intelligence deleted it. There is a poster here who has done such work. When CIA wants it gone it is gone

https://www.nydailynews.com/2020/11/13/alex-acostas-email-inbox-during-critical-period-of-jeffrey-epstein-case-missing/

But they claim “technical glitch”

Musk out today saying Bannon is in the files,

[Carry_Okie]

No, they don’t. I suspect Intelligence deleted it.

So your personal suspicions define reality, with complete disregard for how valuable such information would be to a host of disparate interests with far more more means to develop access than you have.

I see.

[RummyChick]

And what info do you have that proves that that Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility is lying?

[Salvavida]

This is terrifying. Imagine the left wielding the same tool. Don’t put anything in writing.

[Fledermaus]

Big deal. No one will ever be held accountable.