Tulsi Gabbard, the current Director of National Intelligence, has resigned from her position effective June 30 to care for her husband, Abraham, who was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer.
In her resignation letter, Gabbard described her husband as her “rock” during multiple overseas deployments and stated that his strength and love have sustained her through challenges. She wrote that she “cannot in good conscience ask him to face this fight alone while I continue in this demanding and time-consuming position.”
Gabbard, a Democratic representative from Hawaii who ran for the presidential nomination in 2020, left the party in October 2022 after stating on social media that she could no longer remain within what she described as “the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers.”
In February 2025, Gabbard fired over 100 intelligence officials involved in perverted sex talk in a National Security Agency chatroom. Earlier that year, she declassified reports revealing that President Barack Hussein Obama directed U.S. intelligence agencies to investigate whether Russia had helped elect Donald Trump in 2016.
Gabbard also revoked security clearances for 37 intelligence officials who allegedly politicized their work or violated tradecraft standards. She endorsed former President Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential race, stating that a vote for him would be “a vote to end wars, not start them.”
However, after Trump ordered military strikes on Iran in support of Israel—a move she reportedly opposed—Gabbard faced an impossible position during testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. During that testimony, she stated that Operation Midnight Hammer had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capability and that Iran has not begun rebuilding it. Her claim contradicted the White House’s rationale for the attack, which was to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
Under questioning from Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia, Gabbard could not state that Iran posed an “imminent nuclear threat” to the United States as the administration had argued.
Gabbard served in the U.S. Army Reserve and deployed overseas. She previously revealed that the United States had funded more than two dozen biolabs across Ukraine.