The Director of the US National Intelligence Tulsey Gabbard, Mike Collins and his deputy Maria Langgan Richoff, dismissed the acting head of the National Intelligence Council (NIC) from the posts of the acting head of the National Intelligence Council.
According to The Hill newspaper, Gabbard also translated the NIC office, previously located in the CIA building, to the Main Building of the National Intelligence Office (ODNI).
The spokesman of ODNI, commenting on the dismissal of Collins and Rickhoff, said that Gabbard acts as part of the efforts of US President Donald Trump to “terminate the policy and use of the intelligence community as a pressure tool.”
On April 9, ODNI announced the creation of a new structure on the initiative of Gabbard – the “Group of Initiatives of the Director”, which will control the work of personnel in 18 intelligence agencies. According to the statement, the priority of the group will be the opposition of intelligence politicization and declassify information relevant to society.