Bob Hoge writes for RedState.com about efforts to clean house within the federal intelligence establishment.
Former Hawaii Rep. and current Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard—who left the Democrat party in October ’24 to become a Republican and join the Trump train—continues to make her mark as she on Tuesday fired the top officials leading the National Intelligence Council because she alleges they are fierce Dem partisans.
Whistleblowers describe the officials as “radically opposed to Trump” who go out of their way to block his agenda.
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 officials told Fox News Digital.
Fox News Digital reached out Langan-Riekhof for comment and did not immediately hear back, and couldn’t immediately find contact information for Collins.
Collins also has whistleblower complaints against him for political bias and “deliberately undermining the incoming Trump administration,” officials said.
They added that Collins was closely associated with Michael Morrell, the former deputy director of the CIA who worked to write a public letter in 2020 claiming that Hunter Biden’s laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” and to get signatures from top ex-intelligence officials.
One of the officials is a big proponent of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), the divisive ideology that Trump has promised to get out of the federal government.
As for Langan-Reikhof, officials said she has been a “key advocate” for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and is someone who whistleblowers allege is “radically opposed to Trump.”
The DNI is also making a structural move to ensure she can keep a close eye on intelligence staff:
Meanwhile, Gabbard is moving the National Intelligence Council from the CIA to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to “directly hold accountable any improper action and politicization of intelligence,” Fox News Digital has learned.
Many intel community leakers are “career bureaucrats that are entrenched in Washington politics,” officials said.
