The Daily Populous

WASHINGTON — The Office of the Director of National Intelligence will dramatically reduce its workforce and cut its budget by more than $700 million annually, the Trump administration announced Wednesday.

“Over the last 20 years, ODNI has become bloated and inefficient, and the intelligence community is rife with abuse of power, unauthorized leaks of classified intelligence, and politicized weaponization of intelligence," Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, said in a statement announcing a more than 40% workforce reduction.

Its role, ODNI said when it announced the center’s creation, was to coordinate and integrate intelligence pertaining to malign influence. »

A 31-year-old Russian serviceman claimed in an interview to have participated in the May 2024 killing of five captured Ukrainian soldiers in Donetsk Oblast, according to Polish-Belarusian media outlet Vot Tak.

The five Ukrainian soldiers were allegedly captured on May 5, 2024, in the village of Karlovka, near Avdiivka.

Multiple intelligence reports suggest that Russian soldiers have received explicit orders to kill prisoners of war. »

DIU’s Russian Volunteer Corps – Russian military volunteers fighting for Ukraine – was also involved in the operation.

Fighters from the Russian Volunteer Corps captured 16 Russian service personnel during the assault and mop-up operations.

Some of the prisoners were "flag-bearers" who were supposed to film fake news reports about the "capture" of Ukrainian settlements, particularly the village of Andriivka-Klevtsove. »

Maybe she’s smarter than I think, maybe she’s not.

Maybe she’s a hardcore racist, maybe she’s not.

Trump long ago established to the satisfaction of everyone outside of MAGA world that he’s a racist to the bone. »