US intelligence sharing on Iran and other global threats with Congress and across the federal government has slowed and, in some cases, temporarily stopped during President Donald Trump’s second term, according to eight current and former officials and people briefed on the matter.
Gabbard’s team had accused lawmakers of leaking to the press. 11, 2001, al Qaeda attacks. Lawmakers and their staffs also briefly stopped receiving intelligence reports from Gabbard’s office in the days after the US military intervention in Iran in June 2025 and again after the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January 2026, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Former officials and outside experts said the disruptions risk leaving policymakers with an incomplete picture of threats facing the country, echoing intelligence failures exposed after the Sept. The slowdown comes as the administration weighs whether to resume strikes on Iran after the midterm elections on Tuesday.
Gabbard’s office also stopped briefing Congress on election threats in 2025, according to two people familiar with the matter and a former US official.
“Director Clayton remains committed to ensuring that ODNI and the intelligence community have the resources they need to continue informing key U.S. government decision-makers and keeping Americans safe,” ODNI said in a statement to Reuters.
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The situation has alarmed former officials, some of whom are working on a bipartisan basis at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution to draw up plans to rebuild the intelligence community in the next administration, four former US officials said. “Analysts still do the work, but this White House has made them irrelevant because the president treats unwelcome information as disloyalty,” said Julia Curlee, a former CIA analyst who said she was fired from the Trump National Security Council last year for being transgender. “The problem is that by taking actions which have the effect of hollowing out institutions where there’s actual intelligence community coordination on things, you’re creating little lily pads, and then everybody can pick their own lily pad to listen to,” said Morgan Muir, the former deputy director of national intelligence in the Biden administration who also briefed President George W.
