负责战略和通信的副DNI Alexa Henning告诉ABC新闻，在担任国家情报总监的第一天，Tulsi Gabbard将前往德国参加慕尼黑安全会议，在那里她将与包括美国主要盟友英国、法国、澳大利亚和德国在内的同行举行30场双边会议。
在参议院上午投票批准她后，加巴德于周三下午宣誓就职，预计将在会议期间的午餐会上发表讲话。副总统万斯和国务卿马尔科·卢比奥也将和她一起出席。
在1月份的确认听证会上，加巴德预演了她作为国家情报总监办公室主任的优先事项，称唐纳德·特朗普总统的连任旨在打破情报界的失败循环，结束“情报委员会的武器化/政治化，并开始恢复对那些承担保护我们国家关键任务的人的信任。”
更多:参议院确认加巴德为国家情报总监
根据美国广播公司新闻频道(ABC News)获得的一份优先事项清单，为了评估全球威胁环境，加巴德将确定“我们情报中存在的差距，整合情报要素，加强信息共享，并确保公正、非政治化、客观的收集和分析，以支持总统和决策者的决策”。
她的优先事项还强调了结束情报界两极分化的必要性，称她的目标是“确保情报委员会明确的使命重点是公正、非政治化的情报收集和分析的核心使命，以保护我们的国家。”
根据这份文件，DNI还强调，“通过透明度和问责制重建信任”是国家安全的当务之急。
像第二届特朗普政府中的许多政府机构一样，加巴德的重点是改革ODNI，该机构是为了应对导致9/11的情报失误而创建的。根据该文件，她旨在“评估和解决ODNI的效率、冗余和有效性，以确保人员和资源的重点放在我们的国家安全核心任务上”。
在确认过程中，这位前夏威夷国会女议员在两个多月的时间里会见了超过半数的参议院议员。据知情人士透露，两党议员都对最近的情报失误表示失望。直到被提名前夕，加巴德一直在国会山会见参议员。
上个月，在国会山举行的有争议的确认听证会上，加巴德受到了来自两党议员的质询，内容涉及她在一个关键监控工具——FISA第702条上的逆转，以及她拒绝给前国家安全局(National Security Agency)泄密者爱德华·斯诺登(Edward Snowden)贴上叛徒的标签。
周三，参议院以52票对48票确认了她的提名。加巴德，一位前民主党人转变为共和党人，没有得到民主党的选票。唯一投票反对她的共和党人是前多数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔(Mitch McConnell)，他说，“国家不应该担心总统收到的情报评估被一位有着惊人判断失误历史的国家情报总监污染。”
另一个关键的“不”票来自独立参议员伯尼·桑德斯，他在辞去民主党全国委员会副主席后，于2016年参加了总统竞选。
根据美国广播公司获得的文件，加巴德计划与立法者合作，以确保对他们的情报请求做出回应。关注的问题包括2023年10月7日哈马斯在以色列的恐怖袭击;2024年叙利亚叛军接管;未能确定新冠肺炎疫情的源头，异常健康事件(AHIs)，也称为“哈瓦那综合征,"不明异常现象(UAP) -空中、海上或太空中无法用科学解释的物体-无人机等等。
加巴德是美国陆军中校军队预备役，已在陆军国民警卫队和预备役服役22年，包括部署到伊拉克，科威特和吉布提。她是第一位在军队中服役的DNI女性，并计划继续在ODNI条例允许的预备役中服役。
根据这份文件，当她担任美国最高情报官员的角色时，她计划利用她在军队和国会的经验带来“新鲜的眼光”。
Exclusive: Gabbard to meet with US allies in Munich on first trip as DNI
During her first full day as director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard will travel to Germany for the Munich Security Conference, where she will hold 30 bilateral meetings with counterparts, including key U.S. allies Great Britain, France, Australia, and Germany, Alexa Henning, deputy DNI for strategy and communications told ABC News.
Gabbard, who sworn into office Wednesday afternoon after the Senate voted to confirm her in the morning, is expected to deliver remarks at a luncheon during the conference. She will be joined by Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who are also attending.
During her confirmation hearing in January, Gabbard previewed her priorities as head of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), stating that President Donald Trump's reelection was aimed at breaking the cycle of failure within the intelligence community, ending "the weaponization/politicization of the IC and begin to restore trust in those who have been charged with the critical task of securing our nation."
To assess the global threat environment, Gabbard will identify "where gaps in our intelligence exist, integrate intelligence elements, increase information-sharing, and ensure unbiased, apolitical, objective collection and analysis to support the president and policymakers' decision-making," according to a list of priorities obtained by ABC News.
Her priorities also emphasize the need to end polarization of the intelligence community, stating that her goal is to "ensure clear mission focus to the IC on its core mission of unbiased, apolitical collection and analysis of intelligence to secure our nation."
The DNI also stresses that rebuilding "trust through transparency and accountability," is a national security imperative, according to the document.
Like many government agencies in the second Trump administration, Gabbard's focus is on reforming ODNI, which was created in response to intelligence failures leading up to 9/11. She aims to "assess and address efficiency, redundancy, and effectiveness across ODNI to ensure focus of personnel and resources is focused on our core mission of national security," according to the document.
During the confirmation process, the former Hawaii congresswoman met with more than half of the Senate over two months. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expressed frustration with recent intelligence failures, according to sources with knowledge of proceedings. Gabbard continued meeting with senators on Capitol Hill up until the eve of her nomination.
Gabbard was grilled by lawmakers from both sides of the aisle about her reversal on a key surveillance tool, Section 702 of the FISA, and her refusal to label former National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden a traitor during contentious confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill last month.
The Senate confirmed her nomination, 52-48, on Wednesday. Gabbard, a former Democrat turned Republican, received no Democratic votes. The only Republican to vote against her was former Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said, "The nation should not have to worry that the intelligence assessments the President receives are tainted by a Director of National Intelligence with a history of alarming lapses in judgment."
Another key "no" vote came from independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose presidential campaign Gabbard endorsed in 2016 after stepping down as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee.
According to the document obtained by ABC News, Gabbard plans to work with lawmakers to ensure responsiveness to their requests for intelligence. Issues of concern include the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack in Israel; the 2024 Syrian rebel takeover; failures to identify the source of the COVID-19 outbreak, Anomalous Health Incidents (AHIs), also known as "Havana Syndrome,"Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena(UAP) -- objects in air, sea or space that defy scientific explanation -- drones and more.
Gabbard, a lieutenant colonel in theArmyReserve, has served 22 years in the Army National Guard and Reserve, including deployments to Iraq, Kuwait, and Djibouti. She is the first female DNI to have served in the military and plans to continue to serve in the Reserve, which ODNI regulations permit.
She plans to use her experience in the military and in Congress to bring "fresh eyes" as she assumes the role of America's top intelligence official, according to the document.
