Gabbard says 100 plus intelligence officers were fired over inappropriate NSA chatrooms

National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard said Tuesday evening that over 100 intelligence officers who participated in sexually explicit messages in National Security Agency chat rooms were fired.

“There are over 100 people from across the intelligence community that contributed to and participated in what is really just an egregious violation of trust,” Gabbard said on the Fox News Channel. “I put out a directive today that they will all be terminated and their security clearances will be revoked.”

Conservative think tank Manhattan Institute on Monday obtained the chat logs for the Intelink chatrooms, which revealed intelligence community employees discussing their experiences with gender-reassignment surgery, artificial genitalia, hormone therapy, and lewd sexual experiences, among others, Fox News reported.

Gabbard said such conversation on that platform  was "unacceptable" and vowed to hold those who participated in the chats "accountable."

NSA put out a statement about the incident in which the agency said what occurred does not represent the entire community.

"NSA is aware of posts that appear to show inappropriate discussions by IC personnel," the statement posted to X reads. "IC collaboration platforms are intended to drive mission outcomes. Potential misuse of these platforms by a small group of individuals does not represent the community. Investigations to address this misuse of government systems are ongoing."