Declaring that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has become “bloated” and has “failed to fulfill its mandate,” DNI Tulsi Gabbard announced Wednesday the first structural overhaul of the agency since its founding 20 years ago, in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, as a layer of authority over the 18 other agencies that comprise America’s $100 billion intelligence community.

“ODNI and the intelligence community must make serious changes to fulfill its responsibility to the American people and the U.S. Constitution,” Gabbard said in a statement, “by focusing on our core mission: find the truth and provide objective, unbiased, timely intelligence to the President and policymakers.

“Ending the weaponization of intelligence and holding bad actors accountable are essential to begin to earn the American people’s trust which has long been eroded. Under President Trump’s leadership, ODNI 2.0 is the start of a new era.”

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