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DNI Gabbard Moves to Purge Intel Community Employees Over Misuse of NSA Messaging Platform for DEI Chatrooms
Charlie Kirk Staff
02/26/2025
The Trump administration is cracking down on misconduct within the intelligence community, as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard has ordered the termination of federal employees found to have engaged in inappropriate and explicit discussions on a government-run messaging platform. The move underscores the administration’s broader effort to restore professionalism and refocus intelligence agencies on their core mission: national security.
Gabbard issued a directive Tuesday to revoke the security clearances and fire employees who took part in explicit chatrooms on the National Security Agency’s (NSA) “Intelink” platform, a messaging system intended for official government communications.
“There are over 100 people from across the intelligence community that contributed to and participated in… what is really just an egregious violation of trust. What to speak of, like basic rules and standards around professionalism,” Gabbard said on Jesse Watters Primetime Tuesday.
Officials say an ongoing investigation has uncovered intelligence personnel misusing the platform to discuss sexually explicit topics under the guise of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
According to information obtained by researchers at the conservative Manhattan Institute, chat logs from the NSA’s Intelink messaging system revealed employees from multiple intelligence agencies—including the Defense Intelligence Agency, U.S. Naval Intelligence, and the NSA itself—sharing discussions about gender reassignment surgeries, hormone treatments, artificial genitalia, polyamory, and pronoun usage.
Following the release of these chat logs Monday, an NSA spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the agency was “actively investigating” potential abuses of its internal communication system.
Gabbard told Fox News host Jesse Watters that the issue runs deeper than just a handful of employees misusing government resources.
“We got to take a step back because this is just barely scratching the surface,” she said. “When you see what these people were saying,… they were brazen in using an NSA platform intended for professional use to conduct this kind of really, really horrific behavior. And they were brazen in doing this because when was the last time anyone was really held accountable? Certainly not over the last four years, certainly not over the last 10, maybe 20 years, and we look at some of the biggest violations of the American people’s trust in the intelligence community.”
Gabbard has been vocal about her determination to clean house, condemning the behavior as “unacceptable” and promising accountability.
“These disgusting chat groups were immediately shut down when [the president] issued his EO ending the DEI insanity the Biden Admin was obsessed with,” she wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday evening. “Our IC must be focused on our core mission: ensuring the safety, security, and freedom of the American people.”
The leaked conversations reportedly originated from DEI-centered groups on the NSA’s Intelink Messenger platform, specifically chatrooms labeled “LBTQA” and “IC_Pride_TWG,” according to Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Sources who provided the information to Rufo alleged that these spaces had become platforms for activists who spent their time engaged in ideological discussions rather than intelligence work.
Rufo reported that DEI programs within the NSA had facilitated the creation of these employee groups, with the agency previously describing DEI initiatives as “not only mission critical, but mission imperative.” The leaked messages suggest that activist employees had hijacked these official resources, holding meetings with titles such as “Privilege,” “Ally Awareness,” “Pride,” and “Transgender Community Inclusion.”
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