ODNI Crisis Deepens as Three Intelligence Centers Eliminated and NIC Leadership Fired Under Pulte

During her tenure, Gabbard eliminated three of ODNI's five national coordination centers: the National Counterproliferation and Biosecurity Center, the Foreign Malign Influence Center, and the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center 1. In February, she fired NIC acting chair Michael Collins and vice chair Maria Langan-Riekhof days after the council released, via FOIA, a declassified assessment contradicting the administration's claim that Venezuela's Maduro regime directs Tren de Aragua operations in the United States 12. ODNI characterized the two as Biden-era holdovers removed for politicizing intelligence 2. Trump has since canceled Jay Clayton's permanent DNI confirmation hearing over unrelated legislative conditions, leaving Pulte, who has no intelligence experience, as acting DNI for at least several months, according to the Washington Times 1.