Tulsi Gabbard resigns as US director of national intelligence

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard connected Friday announced she is leaving the United States authorities astatine the extremity of June.

Gabbard, successful a missive to President Donald Trump, said her husband, Abraham Williams, was precocious diagnosed with an highly uncommon signifier of bony cancer.

The erstwhile subject serviceman explained she indispensable measurement distant from nationalist work to afloat enactment Abraham, arsenic helium faces large challenges successful the coming months.

Gabbard, confirmed by the Senate successful February 2025, expressed gratitude to the President for the spot placed successful her to pb the National Intelligence Office.

Affirming the ODNI has recorded important advancement successful advancing transparency and restoring integrity to the quality community, she said, “There is inactive important enactment to beryllium done.”

In a Truth Social Post, Trump praised Gabbard for “an unthinkable job” and announced Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Aaron Lukas volition service arsenic acting DNI.

In March, Gabbard attended a Senate proceeding connected planetary threats wherever she laid retired quality connected countries processing ballistic missiles with the imaginable to scope the homeland.

Her exit from the furniture follows the caller departure of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Attorney General Pam Bondi,...