The FBI Is Against DNI Gabbard Leading the US Counterintelligence Effort …..

The Agency has the sole task dealing with Counterintelligence….

So far?

It seems that task has been hands off by Trump’s political types….

DNI head Gabbard IS a Political type…..(Hint?)

The FBI has asked Congress to NOT change things…..

The F.B.I. informed Congress last week that it “strongly” opposed a proposal to make the Office of the Director of National Intelligence the lead counterintelligence agency for the federal government, bringing into public view a rift among top national security officials.

The disclosure, made in a pointed and unusual letter obtained by The New York Times, underscored the broader concern at other agencies, including the F.B.I., over a House bill that would empower Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, to play a more prominent role in counterintelligence issues.

It also appeared to be an effort to undercut Ms. Gabbard, who planned to endorse the change in a separate letter, given that the bill would step into what has typically been the bureau’s purview.

The F.B.I. letter was the latest example of tensions between Ms. Gabbard and her counterparts at other intelligence agencies, including the director of the F.B.I., Kash Patel. A bid by Joe Kent, a top Gabbard ally who leads the National Counterterrorism Center, to investigate the circumstances of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s killing had already raised alarms at the F.B.I., after Mr. Kent went so far as to examine the bureau’s files…

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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has broad oversight of all intelligence agencies, several of which are dedicated to counterintelligence. But it exerts relatively little supervision over the F.B.I.’s spy hunters….

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The C.I.A. and military counterintelligence officials also voiced concerns with the plan to increase Ms. Gabbard’s role, according to people familiar with the dispute…

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Some Senate Republicans and Trump administration officials believe that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, created after the Sept. 11 attacks, has already become too unwieldy, and that its remit should be pared back. Mr. Trump and some White House officials share that view, and have pushed Ms. Gabbard to whittle down her office, administration officials have said….

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