Tulsi Gabbard blames staff after ditching years-long reporting on 'future threats'
United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is revising a long-standing report aimed at gathering estimates of future threats to the United States. The reason, she said, is that those responsible for it failed to do their job and were too partisan.
The New York Times reported Friday that Gabbard won't have the report gathered every four years to predict the challenges the U.S. will face in the coming decades. Typically, the intelligence community focuses on immediate concerns rather than a long-term examination of what to keep an eye on in the next several years.
Gabbard's office claimed the National Intelligence Council’s Strategic Futures Group, which prepares the report, had “neglected to fulfill the purpose it was created for." Gabbard's statement said they were pursuing a partisan agenda in examining foreign threats.
“A draft of the 2025 Global Trends report was carefully reviewed by D.N.I. Gabbard’s team and found to violate professional analytic tradecraft standards in an effort to propagate a political agenda that ran counter to all of the current president’s national security priorities,” the office said.
Gabbard never worked in the intelligence field until she was confirmed in Feb. 2025.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence was established after the Sept. 11 attacks, when an independent congressional commission found that there were intelligence failures and that what intelligence was gathered wasn't integrated with the military and domestic agencies, the website explains.