Exclusive: Gabbard to meet with us allies in Munich on first trip as DNI

During her first full day as director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard travels to Germany to the Munich Safety Conference, where she will hold 30 bilateral meetings with colleagues, including the most important American allies UK, France, Australia and Germany, Alexa Henning, Deputy DNI For strategy and communication told ABC News.

Gabbard, who was to be sworn to office on Wednesday afternoon shortly after the Senate voted to confirm her, is expected to give comments on a lunch during the conference. She, together with Vice President JD Vance and State Secretary Marco Rubio, will also be attending.

During his confirmation hearing in January, Gabbard advanced his priorities as head of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), where he said President Donald Trump’s re -election was aimed at breaking cycle with failure in the intelligence community and ending ”weapons politicization of IC and begins to restore confidence in those accused of the critical task of securing our nation. “

To assess the global threat environment, Gabbard identifies “where there are gaps in our intelligence, integrating intelligence elements, increasing information sharing and ensuring objective, apolitical, objective collection and analysis to support the president and decision makers’ decision -making,” according to a list of priorities obtained by ABC News.

Her priorities also emphasize the need to end the polarization of the intelligence community and says her goal is to “ensure a clear mission focus to IC on her core task of impartial, apolitical collection and analysis of intelligence to secure our nation.”

DNI also emphasizes that reconstruction of “trust through transparency and accountability” is a national security imperative, according to the document.

Like many state agencies in the second Trump administration, Gabbard’s focus is on reforming Odni, which was created in response to intelligence errors leading up to 9/11. She aims to “assess and address efficiency, redundancy and efficiency over ODNI to ensure that staff and resources are focused on our central national security mission” according to the document.

During the confirmation process, the former Hawaii congregation met with more than half of the Senate over two months. Legislators on both sides of the time expressed frustration over recent intelligence errors, according to sources with knowledge of procedures. Gabbard continued to meet with senators at Capitol Hill up until the evening of her nomination.

Gabbard was grilled by legislators from both sides of the hallway about her reversing on a key monitoring tool, section 702 of FISA, and her rejection of labeling the former national security agency, Edward Snowden is a traitor during disputed confirmation hearings at Capitol Hill last month.

The Senate confirmed her nomination, 52-48, Wednesday. Gabbard, a former Democrat, turned Republicans, received no democratic votes. The only Republican who voted against her was former majority leader Mitch McConnell who said: “The nation should not have to worry about the intelligence assessments that the president receives is occupied by a director of national intelligence with a story of alarming lapse in judgment. ”

Another key “No” voice came from Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, whose presidential campaign Gabbard approved in 2016 after resigning as a vice -president of the democratic national committee.

According to the document obtained by ABC News, Gabbard plans to work with legislators to ensure responsiveness to their intelligence requests. Questions about concern include October 7, 2023, Hamas Terroris attack in Israel; 2024 Syrian Rebel Takeover; Failure to identify the source of the Covid-19 outbreak, Anomal Health Events (Ahis), also known as “Havana Syndrome,” unidentified anomal phenomena (UAP) objects in air, sea or space that defy scientific explanation drones and more.

Gabbard, a Colonel in Army Reserve, has earned 22 years in the Army National Guard and Reserve, including deployments to Iraq, Kuwait and Djibouti. She is the first female DNI to have served in the military and plans to continue to serve in the reserve that Odni rules allow.

She plans to use her experience in the military and in Congress to bring “fresh eyes” as she assumes the role of America’s top intelligence officer, according to the document.