Tulsi Gabbard’s Office Shouldn’t Exist
The article critiques the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) under Tulsi Gabbard, arguing that it has failed to fulfill its intended purpose. Instead of improving intelligence coordination, it has become politicized and ineffective. The author suggests that the ODNI should be abolished as it has not addressed the core issues that led to its creation after 9/11.
- ▪The ODNI was established to improve accountability and coordination within the intelligence community but has not succeeded in these goals.
- ▪Under Tulsi Gabbard's leadership, the office has become a platform for political agendas rather than a functional intelligence entity.
- ▪The creation of the DNI was a response to the failures leading up to the 9/11 attacks, but the resulting bureaucracy has complicated rather than improved intelligence operations.
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| Original publisher | The Bulwark |
| Canonical URL | https://www.thebulwark.com/p/tulsi-gabbard-office-shouldnt-exist-director-national-intelligence-9-11 |
| Publication time | Tue, 19 May 2026 09:31:33 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-19T09:34:57.479Z |
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Tulsi Gabbard’s Office Shouldn’t ExistAnd her tenure in it proves exactly why.John SipherMay 19, 2026Share(Photo illustration by The Bulwark / Photo: Getty)I HAVE SPENT MUCH OF THE TRUMP ERA warning against the cynical assault on the so-called “deep state” and the reckless effort to hollow out public institutions. However, there is one national security bureaucracy I would gladly see abolished, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).The ODNI was supposed to coordinate, clarify, and impose accountability on the intelligence community. It hasn’t. Now, under Director Tulsi Gabbard, the problem is no longer merely bureaucratic, but political.
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