Tulsi Gabbard, serving as Director of National Intelligence, has moved into the center of several fast moving developments in the last few days. The Korea Times reports she is publicly accusing senior Obama era officials of a criminal conspiracy tied to the 2016 Russia matter, an unusually aggressive posture for the nation’s top intelligence official and one she has amplified through official statements and media appearances according to the Korea Times on August 12, 2025.
Local affiliates ABC 33 40 and KOMO News report that documents Gabbard released last month listed names of former senior officials who attended key meetings around the 2016 election period. In those reports, Gabbard described what she called a conspiracy to subvert President Trump’s 2016 victory and presidency, while former CIA Director John Brennan, in a separate MSNBC interview cited in those stories, reiterated that the original intelligence assessment did not judge impact on the election outcome or address collusion. These stations also highlighted Vice President JD Vance’s prediction on Fox News that indictments are likely, citing the newly released materials as a catalyst.
AOL News reports that a new probe announced by state attorney Pam Bondi was sparked by Gabbard’s recent declassifications, which have come in several tranches over the past weeks, intensifying scrutiny of how the 2016 interference assessments were communicated and used.
AInvest, a finance and politics outlet, claims CIA insiders are targeting Gabbard after she released a House Intelligence report deconstructing aspects of the Russiagate intelligence narrative. While that account is disputed elsewhere, it underscores the friction between the DNI and parts of the intelligence community in the wake of these disclosures.
In a separate development drawing public attention, IMDb’s news feed recapped Gabbard’s interview on the Pod Force One podcast, where she said she believes aliens could be real and pledged to continue looking for the truth and share it with the American people, while declining to discuss specifics.
Alongside these controversies, Just Security notes that Gabbard has aligned with senior defense leadership in calling for accelerating artificial intelligence adoption across the intelligence community, emphasizing open source analysis, new procurement models, and transparency in how AI informed assessments are validated. This policy push suggests her office is pairing declassification moves with a broader modernization agenda.
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