WASHINGTON ¨C U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard said on Tuesday that she has wound down a task force she launched last year with the declared goal of rooting out politicization from intelligence agencies, but which critics accused of being a tool for partisan attacks by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.
Gabbard said in a statement she had reassigned members of the Director's Initiatives Group (DIG) elsewhere in her agency. Her comments came after two sources said the decision to wrap up the DIG was taken after alleged ?missteps.
A ?spokesperson at Gabbard's Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) denied any missteps and said the DIG was meant ?to be only temporary, a view Gabbard echoed.
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