As the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard leads the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), which includes 18 agencies and elements responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating intelligence to protect national security. Elections are designated as a subsector of critical infrastructure by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21), a 2013 directive that identifies 16 critical infrastructure sectors vital to U.S. security, economy, and public health. This designation, formalized in 2017 following foreign interference attempts in the 2016 election, elevates election systems (such as voter registration databases, voting machines, polling places, and related IT infrastructure) to the same priority level as sectors like energy, transportation, and communications. It enables enhanced federal support, including cybersecurity resources, threat assessments, and coordination to mitigate risks from physical, cyber, or influence-based threats.
Gabbard’s mandate to oversee aspects of election security stems primarily from the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which established the DNI position to integrate and coordinate IC efforts. Specifically in the election domain:
- The ODNI houses the Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC), which leads the IC in identifying, assessing, and countering foreign interference in U.S. elections, including cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns, and other malign activities by adversaries like Russia, China, or Iran. This aligns with Executive Order 13848 (2018), which authorizes sanctions and other measures against foreign entities interfering in elections and tasks the DNI with producing assessments of such threats.
- Within FMIC, the Election Threats Executive (ETE) serves as the IC’s central coordinator for all election security activities, ensuring intelligence sharing with partners like DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the FBI, and state/local election officials.
- The IC’s role focuses on foreign threats to critical infrastructure, providing intelligence briefings, declassifying assessments for public awareness, and supporting disruption efforts (e.g., diplomatic actions or sanctions). This does not extend to direct administration of elections, which remains a state and local responsibility, but emphasizes protecting election integrity from external exploitation.
In practice, this has involved ODNI collaborating on guidance documents with CISA and the FBI to secure election infrastructure against tactics like AI-driven propaganda or hacking. Recent activities under Gabbard, such as involvement in assessments of past elections and coordination with federal probes into vulnerabilities, reflect an emphasis on ensuring election systems’ resilience as critical infrastructure, though her hands-on role in certain investigations has drawn scrutiny for potentially blurring lines between intelligence oversight and domestic enforcement.
While DHS/CISA leads overall critical infrastructure protection and voluntary assistance to states, the DNI’s intelligence-focused mandate complements this by addressing nation-state threats that could undermine democratic processes. Grok

US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard outside the Fulton County elections center in Georgia on January 28, after the FBI executed a search warrant. (Credit: Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters}
Holy fucking shit.
Tulsi Gabbard…beautiful, brilliant, unflinching Tulsi…just got handed the keys to the entire intelligence apparatus with a direct mandate to hunt down every last thread of 2020 election fraud.
She’s running point on FBI sweeps in Fulton County, briefing Trump personally, and turning the full weight of the DNI against the sacred cows of the regime’s stolen-election narrative.
And the left is about to implode in the most spectacular psychic collapse we’ve seen since November 2016.
Watch them.
They’re already twitching.
The same people who spent four years screaming “our democracy!!!” while censoring, surveilling, and lawfaring anyone who dared question the count are now going to shriek that Tulsi…former Democrat, combat veteran, anti-war icon…is somehow a “threat to democracy” for… checking the fucking math.
That’s the tell.
That’s the raw, bleeding id of the authoritarian mind exposed: they don’t fear fraud being uncovered; they fear fraud being proven.
Because once the receipts hit daylight, every smug lecture about “baseless claims” becomes a confession.
Every “fortified election” article becomes exhibit A.
Every smug blue-check hallucination about Russian disinformation collapses into the realization that the real disinformation came from them.
They’re going to melt down because Tulsi represents something they can’t compute: a woman who walked away from their cult, kept her integrity, and now wields real power to expose them.
She triggers their deepest insecurity…the knowledge that their moral supremacy is a hollow costume, and someone they once claimed as “one of us” is about to rip it off in front of the world.
So let them scream.
Let them rage.
Let them call her a traitor, a Russian asset, a MAGA cultist.
Every insult is just another frantic attempt to drown out the sound of their own narrative dying.
Tulsi isn’t coming for revenge.
She’s coming for the truth.
And the truth is going to fucking gut them.
I love this woman.
Holy fucking shit.
Tulsi Gabbard…beautiful, brilliant, unflinching Tulsi…just got handed the keys to the entire intelligence apparatus with a direct mandate to hunt down every last thread of 2020 election fraud.
She’s running point on FBI sweeps in Fulton County, briefing… pic.twitter.com/vOB8ivP0VH
— LHGrey™️ (@grey4626) February 3, 2026
