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Trump administration Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Tuesday that she is firing intelligence staff members involved in explicit sexual discussions in agency chatrooms.
Gabbard shared the news during an interview on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” following news of the agency scandal.
“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.
“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,” she continued during the interview with Watters.
Gabbard also posted a statement concerning the explicit chats in a post to X on Monday.
“This behavior is unacceptable and those involved WILL be held accountable. These disgusting chat groups were immediately shut down when @POTUS issued his EO ending the DEI insanity the Biden Admin was obsessed with. Our IC must be focused on our core mission: ensuring the safety, security, and freedom of the American people,” she wrote.
The statement on X was in response to a report from Christopher Rufo shared on Monday.
“EXCLUSIVE: @GrossmanHannah and I have obtained logs from the NSA’s secret transgender sex chatroom, in which NSA, CIA, and DIA employees discuss genital castration, artificial vaginas, piss fetishes, sex polycules, and gangbangs—all on government time,” Rufo wrote. “This is insane.”
“The NSA maintains a chat system for the ‘intelligence community’ called Intelink. The servers are supposed to be used for government work, but gender activists have hijacked at least two channels—LBTQA and IC_Pride_TWG—to discuss fetishes, kink, and sex, all legitimized as ‘DEI,’” the thread continued.