Tulsi Gabbard Blasts CNN as CIA ‘Propaganda Arm’ — DOGE Firings Report ‘Indirect Threat’

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard blasted CNN as the CIA’s “propaganda arm” and branded the network’s report warning that foreign actors could recruit resentful employees who lost jobs in DOGE’s mass firings an “indirect threat” to the Trump administration.

In an article published Monday on CNN’s website, the network warned that DOGE’s cost-cutting actions risked exposing government secrets.

“As the CIA weighs staff cuts, current and former intelligence officials say that mass firings could offer a rich recruitment opportunity for foreign intelligence services — like China or Russia — who may seek to exploit financially vulnerable or resentful former employees,” CNN journalists Katie Bo Lillis, Phil Mattingly, Natasha Bertrand and Zachary Cohen wrote under shared by-line.

“The Justice Department has charged multiple former military and intelligence officials for providing US intelligence to China in recent years,” they added.

On Fox News Tuesday, host Jesse Watters raised the article with Gabbard about “CIA agents don’t like getting DOGE’d” so might “sell state secrets.”

Gabbard immediately said that agents were “exposing themselves” and using CNN to produce the article in an Operation Mockingbird-style information operation by the agency to attack DOGE and Trump over the cuts.

I am curious about how they think this is a good tactic to keep their job. They are exposing themselves, essentially, by making this indirect threat, using their propaganda arm through CNN that they’ve used over and over and over again to reveal their hand, that their loyalty is not at all to America, it is not to the American people or the Constitution, it is to themselves.

These are exactly the kinds of people that we need to root out, get rid of, so that the patriots who do work in this area, who are committed to our core mission, can actually focus on that. I have to tell you, one of the byproducts of what I just saw literally today is because of this immediate action of transparency and accountability I have people within the intelligence community reaching out to me personally and directly saying, ‘Hey, you need to know about this, you need to look over here.’ People are stepping forward because they are all on board with the mission to clean house and refocus on our core mission of serving the American people.

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