Press Releases 2025 | Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Press Releases 2025

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.

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard declassified a Top Secret email from then-DNI James Clapper exposing his efforts to suppress concerns raised by then-National Security Agency (NSA) Director Mike Rogers regarding the politicized January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that President Obama ordered.

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard welcomes Joe Kent as the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) following U.S. Senate confirmation.

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) provided crucial intelligence to support the successful detention and arrest of a dangerous Sinaloa Cartel leader, Jaime Rene Huereca Casavantes, alias Carlos Miramontes, at the Port of Entry in El Paso, Texas, on August 1, 2025. The arrest operation was carried out by NCTC’s partners at the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service, and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – For six years, a senior intelligence official battled political and bureaucratic resistance in efforts to expose the manipulated intelligence behind the Russia collusion hoax. On Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard released new documents which provide a firsthand account of the Intelligence Community Whistleblower’s relentless efforts to expose the egregious manipulation and manufacturing of intelligence.