US National Intelligence Director Tarshi Gabbard told Fox News Thursday evening that the CIA swamp was “worst” than she had expected.

The CIA reportedly offered to pay the entire workforce before Gabbard confirmed on February 12, and Trump administration officials told the Wall Street Journal that the push was a signal to help President Donald Trump’s agenda help him find other jobs. In “Ingraham’s Angle,” Fox’s host Laura Ingraham asked Gabbard “on a scale of 1 to 10.”

“I knew it was bad to come in. It’s worse than I thought in many different ways. I want to come back and talk to you, drawing back the layers of weaponization, politicization within the intelligence community and removing those who are frankly trying to shape their intelligence according to their own views and their agenda. It’s not just providing our policymakers and presidents with an unbiased, accurate and timely intelligence that they need to make their decisions,” Gabbard said.

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“In this example we spoke, in which the Biden administration brings back these known or suspicious terrorists or terrorists who have links to ISIS terrorists, you see neglect of their obligations. But you realize that this is one form of politicization. The Biden administration was so afraid of being labelled as Islamophobia that they were bent on putting our own national security at risk, which we saw in that example,” Gabbard added.

Between 2021 and 2023, more than 250 illegal immigrants were encountered on terrorist watchlists along the border, according to an August 2024 report from the House Judiciary Committee. Following the encounter, the Department of Homeland Security has freely returned an estimated 99 terrorists to the United States

“But we’ve also seen Prohama rallies and riots on the streets around the country, so we’re now focusing our resources on where they belong, along with President Trump, and with him and the others on the national security team, keeping Americans safe and driving away those who try to harm us,” Gabbard said.

According to the New York Times, the CIA reportedly rejected multiple Biden-era employees as Gabbard took on her new position as director. Outlets reported that batches of “probation employees” have been cut as Trump continues to drive government spending cuts.

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