Tulsi Gabard starts examinations of LECKS in spy regulations

The director of the National Secret Service Tulsi Gabbard said on Friday that she had ordered an investigation into “politically motivated leaks” from the intelligence community and also checks internal chat rooms for misconduct by employees.

“Politically motivated leaks undermine our national security and the trust of the American people and are not tolerated,” said Gabard in an explanation. “Unfortunately, such leaks have become without an investigation or accountability. That ends now. We know and follow the recent leaks aggressively from the intelligence group and will be accountable. ”

In a number of articles on X, Gabard listed the latest examples of non -authorized leaks from sources in the intelligence group. She referred to news-to-related topics such as Israel, Iran and the US Russia relationship from Huffpost, Washington Post, the NBC News and the Record News site. However, she did not exactly specify the stories of which she believes that they were based on leaks or when they were published or broadcast.

“Every non -authorized publication of classified information is a violation of the law and is dealt with as such,” Gabbard wrote.

During the first term of office of President Donald Trump, his government referred more media leak for criminal investigations every year than in the past 15 years, according to records published by the Ministry of Justice of the independent Watchdog group on state surveillance in 2021 in response to a lawsuit by the Freedom of Information Act.

The Trump government also tried to maintain communication documents from CNN reporters, New York Times and the Washington Post as part of the leak examination efforts in Trump's first term.

When she took over as a first -class intelligence officer last month, Gabbard said that she intended to restore confidence in the secret services, and argued that spy services were abused as political weapons against Trump.

Gabard's explanation for the investigation of leaks comes after the senators praised their comments from 2020 in Edward Snowden, which seeped into a huge secret of the electronic deposits of the national security authority during their hearing in their confirmation hearings.

US prosecutors accuse Snowden of the espionage. Snowden fled to Russia, where the authorities have refused to deliver it.

Gabard had praised Snowden as a brave whistleblower to uncover extensive listening through US espionage agencies and suggested that he should be pardoned. At her hearing to confirm her Senate in January, Gabard revised her attitude and said that she would not obtain a forgiveness for Snowden and he “broken the law”. However, she asked herself to ask if she believed that he was a traitor.

Gabard said on Friday that she also initiated an investigation into misconduct or unprofessional behavior in internal chat rooms within secret services.

Last month, Gabard dismissed more than 100 intelligence officials from 15 agencies and said they used an internal chat platform for the chat platform for discussions that contained topics such as polyamory, gender transition surgery and politics.

She said that the behavior of the dismissed civil servants was “an outrageous violation of trust” and violated “basic rules and standards in relation to professionalism”.