Washington DC - Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, recently fired officials behind a report that contradicted President Donald Trump's claims about Venezuelan gangs supposedly taking over the country.

According to Fox News, Gabbard fired National Intelligence Council chair Mike Collins and his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof, on Tuesday.

Collins had reportedly faced whistleblower complaints accusing him of "deliberately undermining" the Trump administration, while Langan-Reikhof was deemed a "key advocate" for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives who is "radically opposed to Trump."

Gabbard will soon move the council from the CIA to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to "directly hold accountable any improper action and politicization of intelligence."

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Their termination also came after the council released a memo last week that found no coordination between Venezuela's government and the Tren de Aragua gang – an assertion Trump has repeatedly made to justify his use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants without due process.

In an X post on Wednesday, Alexa Henning, Gabbard's deputy chief of staff, dismissed claims they were fired over the report, instead arguing, "These [Joe Biden] holdovers were dismissed because they politicized intelligence."

"Also, it shouldn't be lost on you that the leak of classified info was a NIC product, which is against the law, that is the issue," she added, despite the fact that no one has been arrested or prosecuted for such actions.