WASHINGTON ¨C U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard said on Tuesday that she has wound down a task force she launched last year with the declared goal of rooting out politicization from intelligence agencies, but which critics accused of being a tool for partisan attacks by U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s administration.
Gabbard said in a statement she had reassigned members of the Director¡¯s Initiatives Group (DIG) elsewhere in her agency. Her comments came after two sources said the decision to wrap up the DIG was taken after alleged ?missteps.
A ?spokesperson at Gabbard¡¯s Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) denied any missteps and said the DIG was meant ?to be only temporary, a view Gabbard echoed.
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