Thread by @MaryMargOlohan

NEW: @DNIGabbard Tulsi Gabbard will announce today that she is refocusing DNI to aggressively execute its national security mission, shrinking DNI by nearly 50% and saving hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.

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The DNI workforce will receive an email on Wednesday afternoon informing them of the upcoming changes, according to a message viewed by The Daily Wire. Pink slips will go out today.

The changes will reduce personnel by 30-40%.

The announcement comes after a months-long review of DNI to ascertain how it could best fulfill it’s mission to integrate intelligence from + provide oversight over the intelligence community to make sure that it is giving timely, accurate, and apolitical intelligence to POTUS and to lawmakers.

Senior ODNI officials who assisted in the months-long mission review briefed members of the press (including yours truly) on Wednesday at ODNI’s headquarters in McClean, Virginia, a few hours before Gabbard made the official announcement.

These officials stressed that the review was “incredibly thoughtful” and thorough, specifically taking into account the feedback from staff who Gabbard encouraged, during her first days in her role, to come to her with ideas on how to improve ODNI.

"Action without intelligence is foolish, intelligence without action is useless," explains a senior DNI official. "Every piece of intelligence should inform a policy decision or a military, covert, or diplomatic action. Or it is not worth the paper it is written on."

A number of intelligence centers will be refocused or folded into themselves, including the Foreign Malign Influence Center, the National Counterproliferation and Biosecurity Center, and the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center.

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Additionally: DNI will shut down the National Intelligence University and transfer its intelligence-related programs to the National Defense University, where the DOD and ODNI will work to transition current students.

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“Our people come first, and as faculty, staff, and students, your welfare and well being are of our highest concern during this transition period,” explains a letter from @SecDef and @DNIGabbard (viewed by The Daily Wire) to the National Intelligence University’s faculty and staff on Wednesday.

“You will be in good hands under the Defense Department’s National Defense University leadership.”

.@DNIGabbard: “Under President Trump’s leadership, ODNI 2.0 is the start of a new era focused on serving our country, fulfilling our core national security mission with excellence, always grounded in the U.S. Constitution, and ensuring the safety, security, and freedom of the American people.”