Tulsi Gabbard is the 8th Director of National Intelligence (DNI), confirmed in February 2025. She oversees and synthesizes the operations of all 18 agencies of the United States Intelligence Community. A combat veteran and current officer in the U.S. Army Reserve, Gabbard's political trajectory is utterly unique; she served four terms as a Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii and ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 before famously abandoning the party, declaring it captured by an "elitist cabal of warmongers." Joining the Republican Party and endorsing Donald Trump in 2024, she became one of the most prominent anti-interventionist voices in America. As DNI, Gabbard has aggressively shifted the intelligence community’s focus away from the Ukraine-Russia conflict, drastically restricting intelligence sharing with Kyiv and reorienting global assets toward counterterrorism and the geopolitical containment of China. Her leadership marks a profound, populist takeover of the traditional American intelligence apparatus.