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Trump's embattled Intel Chief's extraordinary power play on the eve of war with Iran that infuriated the White House A high-stakes power struggle sprang up inside the U.S. intelligence community as Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard moved to wrest control of President Donald Trump's daily intelligence briefing from the CIA, the Daily Mail has learned. With the Iran and Israel war in full swing, the Russia-Ukraine war still churning and Chinese military forces training at an accelerated pace, whoever controls the distribution of the nation's most classified intelligence has the upper hand in shaping the decision-making process in whether to wage war. Last month, Gabbard ruffled feathers by threatening the CIA's influence after reasserting the ODNI's authority over the president's daily briefing (PDB), a role long dominated by the CIA. 'She's trying to move, physically move and take control of the President's daily brief,' one senior intelligence official told the Daily Mail. Despite the intelligence director taking over responsibility for the PDB in 2004, the CIA maintained the internal systems capable of creating the intelligence reports, which often contain much of the agency's classified information distilled into digestible memos. But Gabbard’s attempt to shift production and delivery of the PDB from CIA headquarters in Langley to her own office has rattled the traditional power structure. 'Obviously, that controls what the president sees,' the source said. 'So she's, I would say, probably caused a
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