{"id":607131,"date":"2026-05-24T23:58:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T23:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=607131"},"modified":"2026-05-24T23:58:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T23:58:44","slug":"the-intelligence-system-and-why-tulsi-gabbard-was-essentially-the-first-dni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=607131","title":{"rendered":"The Intelligence System and Why Tulsi Gabbard Was Essentially the First DNI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Tulsi-Gabbard-and-John-Ratcliffe-1-150x150.jpg\" \/>Against the backdrop of Tulsi Gabbard resigning her position as Director of National Intelligence, there is an opportunity to explain how the Washington DC Intelligence Community functions in real life. ODNI Tulsi Gabbard has rightly been receiving a lot of praise for her efforts at removing the shroud of secrecy that is often used by [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/24\/the-intelligence-system-and-why-tulsi-gabbard-was-essentially-the-first-dni\/\">The Intelligence System and Why Tulsi Gabbard Was Essentially the First DNI<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/\">The Last Refuge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Tulsi-Gabbard-and-John-Ratcliffe-1-150x150.jpg\" title=\"The Intelligence System and Why Tulsi Gabbard Was Essentially the First DNI\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against the backdrop of Tulsi Gabbard resigning her position as Director of National Intelligence, there is an opportunity to explain how the Washington DC Intelligence Community functions in real life. ODNI Tulsi Gabbard has rightly been receiving a lot of praise for her efforts at removing the shroud of secrecy that is often used by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=607131\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Intelligence System and Why Tulsi Gabbard Was Essentially the First DNI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":607132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=607131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/607132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=607131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}