Press Releases 2025

Press Releases 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) provided intelligence to support the successful arrest of a dangerous MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha) member, Jonathan Ezequiel Portillo Beltran, by U.S. Border Patrol in Los Angeles, California, on August 14, 2025.

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard unveiled ODNI 2.0, a historic transformation to refocus the post 9/11 agency on its core mission of intelligence integration and oversight.

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard announced a long-overdue transformation of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to refocus on executing its core national security mission with integrity in the most agile, effective, and efficient way. This will reduce ODNI by over 40% by the end of fiscal year 2025 and save taxpayers over $700 million per year and better enable ODNI to focus on fulfilling its critical role of serving as the central hub for intelligence integration, strategic guidance, and oversight over the Intelligence Community.

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's (ODNI) National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) and its federal partners issued new guidance in its Safeguarding Academia bulletin to alert U.S. colleges and universities about increasing foreign threats to their research and to arm them with mitigation strategies for addressing these threats.

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), in consultation with the Department of Justice (DOJ), is publicly releasing, in redacted form, two Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) opinions and associated targeting, minimization, and querying procedures related to a new certification permitted by recent Congressional legislation and issued under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The April 2025 FISC opinion approved the government’s use of this certification to counter the international production, distribution, or financing of illicit drugs. This work displays the U.S. Government’s commitment toward counternarcotics and counterterrorism while upholding civil liberty protections of U.S. citizens.