Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is going after federal workers in the intelligence community who are thought to have been involved with inappropriate conversations on an internal agency messaging board.
Gabbard told all employees who participated in obscene and explicit chatrooms on the National Security Agency’s (NSA) “Intelink” messaging platform that they would be fired and have their security clearances taken away. Gabbard vowed that more serious actions may be taken once they take a closer look at what was going on behind the scenes.
“There are over 100 people from across the intelligence community that contributed to and participated in… what is really just an egregious violation of trust. What to speak of, like basic rules and standards around professionalism,” Gabbard said on “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Tuesday night, saying Trump had “told her” to get to the bottom of corruption and abuse at the agency.
Officials say that federal workers are being investigated for using an internal agency message board for sexual fantasies without permission, all in the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
Chat logs from the National Security Agency’s (NSA) “Intelink” messaging platform were reportedly obtained by researchers from the conservative Manhattan Institute through sources within the NSA. The logs showed employees from different intelligence agencies talking about their experiences with hormone therapy, polyamory, pronoun usage, and surgery to change their gender. The Defense Intelligence Agency, U.S. Naval Intelligence, and the National Security Agency are said to be some of these agencies.
When the Intelink chat logs came out on Monday, an NSA spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the agency was “actively investigating” possible abuses of the messaging platform it runs.
“We got to take a step back because this is just barely scratching the surface,” Gabbard told Fox News host Jesse Watters.
“When you see what these people were saying,… they were brazen in using an NSA platform intended for professional use to conduct this kind of really, really horrific behavior. And they were brazen in doing this because when was the last time anyone was really held accountable? Certainly not over the last four years, certainly not over the last 10, maybe 20 years, and we look at some of the biggest violations of the American people’s trust in the intelligence community.”
Gabbard previously called the uncovered behavior “unacceptable,” writing on social media that “those involved WILL be held accountable.”
“These disgusting chat groups were immediately shut down when [the president] issued his EO ending the DEI insanity the Biden Admin was obsessed with,” Gabbard wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday evening. “Our IC must be focused on our core mission: ensuring the safety, security, and freedom of the American people.”
The chat logs in question stemmed from DEI-focused groups hosted on the NSA’s Intelink Messenger, titled “LBTQA” and “IC_Pride_TWG,” according to the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow. Rufo said the sources that approached him indicated the sexually explicit chats were given legitimacy through the NSA’s DEI efforts, which the agency has described as “not only mission critical, but mission imperative.”
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The messages were from DEI-focused employee resource groups that activists had taken over and “spent all day” holding meetings with names like “Pride,” “Transgender Community Inclusion,” “Ally Awareness,” and “Privilege.”
The source who leaked the chat logs reportedly told the Manhattan Institute that these meetings were called “Privilege,” “Ally Awareness,” and “Pride.”
Gabbard said that the action taken on Tuesday to hold federal workers “accountable” is “just the beginning” of the Trump administration’s larger efforts to do what the American people have asked them to do.
Gabbard vowed on Fox News to eliminate these chats, look into the issue closer, and handle any other employees who may have been part of this.
