For years, the intelligence community swelled with bureaucratic sub-centers that claimed to police foreign influence on our elections and protect us from “fake news.” As if average Americans need paternalistic oversight to figure out what’s propaganda. Now, the national intelligence director is shaking things up, hacking off a chunk of that bloated structure and giving deep-state courtiers a serious meltdown.

Tulsi Gabbard, who took over as the director, is slashing the Foreign Malign Influence Center, a post-2022 creation that was basically a platform for spinning out claims of foreign meddling in every election controversy. The fact is, this center took on a life of its own, preaching gloom and doom about alleged Russian tampering while ignoring real issues like Big Tech censorship. Gabbard intends to fold it into a broader mission office, effectively stripping it of its special status. Good. We’re done with half-baked scare campaigns that demonize conservative voices while letting leftist disinformation slide.

But that’s not all. She’s also gutting two other centers—one for cybersecurity, another for chemical, biological, and nuclear threats. Critics gasp that this “endangers national security,” but from the vantage point of real Americans, it all sounds like a prudent move to rein in endless layers of pencil-pushing. We pay for a monstrous bureaucracy dedicated to constant espionage in every corner of global affairs, yet the returns have been questionable. If Gabbard sees redundancy, then so be it. Efficiency is hardly a crime.

Even more boldly, she’s axing the entire National Intelligence University, a training ground for the next generation of intelligence elites. People call it the “war college” for spooks. By shutting it down no later than mid-2026 and transferring academic programs elsewhere, Gabbard signals that the intelligence community needs fewer policy wonks and more robust doers. Enough producing a new wave of Ivy-trained strategists who huddle in puzzle palaces but can’t bother giving straightforward insight to policy makers.

Predictably, self-proclaimed experts in Congress have their hair on fire. Certain Democrats and longtime intelligence insiders whine about losing a formal mechanism that “tracks foreign meddling” or “shapes advanced intelligence professionals.” But recall how these same folks insisted on the fail-safe independence of the intelligence apparatus as it sowed doubt about the administration. The president chooses a DNI who serves his vision. If that means trimming the fat, so be it.

Gabbard’s moves follow a pattern: She’s already revoked 37 security clearances from people rumored to have been tangentially connected to questionable meddling in the 2016 fiasco or who remain loyal to a prior administration’s agenda. If you wonder why the intelligence community used to look compromised, maybe it’s because they had holdovers from previous regimes who wouldn’t get on board with this White House’s direction.

In short, the intelligence monarchy is being toppled piece by piece. The priority is no longer launching never-ending investigations into illusions of “foreign interference.” Instead, Gabbard is focusing resources on streamlining legitimate threats. The meltdown from Washington’s career officials is all the confirmation you need that something positive is happening. They thrived under a system that favored panic over clarity.

We should celebrate any rollback of duplicative intelligence offices. If that means fewer so-called experts spinning dire statements about election conspiracies, I’m all for it. Let’s trust local authorities and actual evidence to address meddling, rather than propping up centralized watchers who feed the narrative that every political movement they dislike is controlled by foreign foes. That game grew tired long ago.

With these reforms, the deep state’s protective shell cracks. The message is clear: adapt your methods to actual American interests, or find a new line of work.

Topics: [“intelligence reorganization”, “foreign influence center”, “national security bureaucracy”, “deep state cuts”, “Tulsi Gabbard”]