Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has fired two top intelligence officials for undermining President Trump.
Gabbard fired Mike Collins, who was serving as the acting chair of the National Intelligence Council, and his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof, Tuesday, senior intelligence. The purge was first reported by Fox News, which noted that both officials have faced whistleblower complaints.
The firings are in keeping with the tight discipline that has characterized Trump's historic comeback.
During his first term, Trump was subverted by bad actors within the intelligence community who sought to nullify his unexpected election victory with a bogus investigation into "Russian collusion."
As Trump fought for re-election in 2020, dozens of former intelligence agents publicly speculated, with zero evidence, that Hunter Biden's laptop was "Russian disinformation."
According to Fox News, Collins has ties to Michael Morrell, the former CIA deputy director who coordinated the notorious "Russian disinformation" letter.
Whistleblowers have accused Collins of "deliberately undermining the incoming Trump administration," while Langan-Riekhof has faced similar complaints of being "radically opposed to Trump" and advancing the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) agenda, which Trump has worked to root out.
A longtime critic of political malfeasance by the "Deep State," Gabbard has taken a series of actions in her new intelligence role to restore accountability.
She has recommended the Justice Department prosecute "Deep State criminals" behind recent classified intelligence leaks to the New York Times and Washington Post.
The leaked information included a National Intelligence Council assessment that Venezuela is not directing Tren de Aragua to invade the United States, a conclusion that undercuts President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act to swiftly deport suspected gang members.
The FBI partly dissented from the intelligence assessment, finding the Maduro regime is using Tren de Aragua as a proxy.
The ODNI fired two officials in early May for leaking information about a Tren de Aragua intelligence assessment to the New York Times, Fox News Digital reported.
Meanwhile, Gabbard is moving the National Intelligence Council from the CIA to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which Gabbard oversees, to prevent the "politicization of intelligence" by Deep State bureaucrats.
"It takes time to weed them out and fire them," one official told Fox News Digital, adding that "plans to eliminate non-essential offices within ODNI that we know are housing deep state leakers are underway."
