A July 20 memo ordered U.S. intelligence agencies not to share information about Russia-Ukraine talks with Five Eyes partners U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Two other centers focusing on cybersecurity and chemical, biological and nuclear threats would also be reduced, and the National Intelligence University would be eliminated.

“The court’s disgorgement order, which directs that defendants pay nearly half a billion dollars to the State of New York, is an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution,” Justice Peter Moulton wrote in one of three opinions.

Sanders turned the conversation to the ongoing civil war in Syria. Trump had recently threatened to use military force against Russia-backed President Bashir al-Assad if Assad attacked Idlib province, a stronghold of the jihadist opposition, and Gabbard assailed the president for his “beating of the war drums.”

Two former CIA officials are concerned about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and her eagerness to release top secret information that could compromise sources and methods for agents. The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that Gabbard's indiscriminate way of releasing classified documents regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election angered many career intelligence experts.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggested last week that intelligence ... that Russia had neither the intent nor the capability to try to ‘hack the United States election,’" Gabbard told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo.

US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has appeared on Fox's Hannity to slam the instigators of the Russiagate scandal. Gabbard claimed the declassification of documents showing how an intelligence assessment was "seditious conspiracy" manufactured to undermine Trump.

After this reorganization wraps up at the end of fiscal 2025, ODNI will have about 1,300 staffers, down from roughly 1,800.