National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard announced the closure of the Intelligence Community Human Capital office that she said was a “slush fund” for diversity, equity and inclusion.
Ms. Gabbard said the office was closed Wednesday morning.
“We discovered this human capital office that was essentially a slush fund for DEI initiatives hidden under the guise of human capital that closed down this morning,” she said during a Cabinet meeting.
She said the closure will save taxpayers $150 million. That’s along with $2.6 billion in savings from contracts and programs “that do nothing to ensure our national security interests.”
The National Intelligence website described the Human Capital office as seeking “to develop diverse pools of talent, recruit and retain the best for our workforce, provide employees with career-long education/training opportunities, engage and motivate our employees through a sustained culture of excellence, and groom future leaders.”
Thanks to moves like closing that office, Ms. Gabbard’s agency is 25% “smaller and more lean” than it was before she started, she shared with the Cabinet.
It’s part of her focus on “leading the intelligence community toward ending the weaponization and politicization of the intelligence community that has gone on for far too long.”
Meanwhile, her team has been working on targeting cartels that have tried to enter the U.S.
As for looking into the 1968 assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., more declassified documents will be made public, she said.
Plus, she said, “we continue our extensive investigations around the very serious issues we have related to election integrity, illegal abuses of FISA, Crossfire Hurricane, and others.”
