Following a shocking report that National Security Agency (NSA) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employees used a “secret transgender sex chatroom” to engage in sexually explicit conversations during work hours, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revealed that over 100 intelligence officials will be fired and will have their national security clearances revoked.
“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,” Gabbard told Fox News host Jesse Watters on Tuesday. “I put out a directive today that they all will be terminated, and their security clearances will be revoked.”
During her interview with Watters, Gabbard said that the incident highlighted by the recent City Journal report, which was publicized by journalist Christopher Rufo, is “just barely scratching the surface.” She warned that the intelligence officials involved in the secret government chat rooms were “brazen” in using a platform meant for professional use and engaged in “really, really, horrific behavior.”
“They were brazen in doing this because, when was the last time anyone was really held accountable?” Gabbard added. “Certainly not over the last four years, certainly not over the last 10, maybe 20 years when we look at some of the biggest violations of the American people’s trust in the intelligence community.”
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Gabbard told Watters that her directive to terminate the employment and revoke the security clearances of over 100 intelligence officials is “just the beginning of what we’re seeing across the Trump administration.”
Gabbard said the Trump administration is “carrying out the mandate the American people gave him: clean house, root out that rot and corruption and weaponization and politicization so we can start to rebuild that trust in these institutions that are charged with an important mission of serving the American people, ensuring our safety, security, and freedom.”
In response to a Tuesday report from Rufo that Gabbard was preparing to send a memo directing U.S. intelligence agencies to identify the government employees involved in the “obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit” NSA Intelink chatrooms, Gabbard tweeted, “Memo sent. We know who they are. Action is underway.”
Gabbard’s comments come after Rufo reported that he and another journalist had “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.”
