Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, removed two leading intelligence officials from their comments on Tuesday because they were reportedly politicizing information.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s representatives confirmed to the Washington Examiner that Maria Langan-Riekhof, Maria Langan-Riekhof, and Mike Collins, the acting NIC chair, were both fired later on Tuesday night.
According to ODNI officials, Collins was allegedly “deliberately affecting” President Donald Trump’s plan in whistleblower issues. The NIC will now be nested straight within ODNI to stop the “politicization of cleverness,” to add to that.
Collins and Langan-Riekhof could not be reached by phone.
The intelligence service NIC is responsible for creating key assessments of American intelligence for the president. The Washington Post reported on Wednesday evening that the Collins and Langan-Riekhof firings occurred days after they released an examination indicating that Tren de Aragua users were good not to be sent abroad.
Trump has made the crew a key component of his emigration strategy, and he has used the Alien Enemies Act to make Tren de Aragua people deportable sooner.
On Wednesday, ODNI disputed the Washington Post’s report, claiming Collins and Langan-Riekhof were fired for allegedly policing knowledge evaluations.
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” You do a terrible career, but that is probably a necessity for WaPo,” you say. No one from ODNI informed you of this, so naturally you can add your own politically motivated thoughts,” Gabbard’s deputy chief of staff Alexa Henning said in a speech citing the Washington Post  report. That’s incorrect, but who cares about the truth, straight? These relics of Biden were fired because they manipulated knowledge. Additionally, it shouldn’t be forgotten that the drip of classified information was a NIC solution, which is against the law, and that is the problem.
— Alexa Henning ( @alexahenning ) May 14, 2025
