Gabbard resigns as Trump’s top US intelligence official

Another source of friction, the person said, was Gabbard’s revocation last August of the security clearances of 37 current and former U.S. officials that exposed the name of an intelligence officer serving undercover overseas.

Gabbard led several initiatives she cast as rooting out politicization from the intelligence community and approved the stripping of security clearances from former intelligence officials, including former CIA ⁠Director John Brennan.

Senator ​Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and a leading Gabbard critic, told reporters after a Friday event ​in Manassas, Virginia, that Gabbard’s job itself had become too politicized.

“This position now more than ever needs to be an independent, experienced intelligence professional,” Warner said.

The next leader should understand the “director of national intelligence should be focusing on foreign intelligence and not ​involving himself or herself in domestic election incidents,” he said.