McLean, VIRGINIA — Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard is slashing her department’s staff and streamlining “redundant” projects in order to save money, “restore trust” in the U.S. intelligence community, and to continue rooting out the “weaponization” of intelligence.

Senior ODNI officials told Breitbart News of the transformation, dubbed “ODNI 2.0,” explaining that a wave of downsizing began Wednesday afternoon, with an emphasis on shutting down the Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC).

The FMIC, which houses the Election Threats Executive (ETE), coordinated with Big Tech companies including Twitter (now X) and Facebook shortly before the former removed the New York Post’s October 2020 Hunter Biden laptop story from its platform, officials said.

The center was

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