Tulsi Gabbard Says More Than 100 Intelligence Officials Being Fired Over Secret Chats

More than 100 officials from the U.S. intelligence community are being fired after they were identified as participants in secret chats, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on Feb. 25. “There are over 100 people from across the intelligence community that contributed to and participated in this, what is really just an egregious violation of trust,” Gabbard told Fox News. The officials did not abide by basic rules and standards, according to Gabbard. “I put out a directive today that they all will be terminated and their security clearances will be revoked,” she said. Reporter Christopher Rufo recently posted logs from internal National Security Agency (NSA) chatrooms that he said showed employees from multiple intelligence agencies discussing sexual topics and other issues....