Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin Carroll
“The DNI’s basic responsibility is to provide the president, department and agency heads, senior military commanders, and Congress with intelligence that is ‘objective’ and ‘independent of political considerations.’ Gabbard’s only authority related to voting is her supervision of the Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC), which houses the Election Threat Executive (ETE). The ETE, founded in 2019, is tasked with providing recommendations for potential responses to attempts to influence or interfere with U.S. elections by countries such as Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. It is unclear how the DNI helping the FBI seize a county’s voting records from 2020 fits into the mission of the FMIC or the Office of the DNI (ODNI) more broadly, especially as those records were already under seal, per a state court order.” (02/10/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/gabbard-raid-intelligence-community-threat/