Tulsi Gabbard, US Director of National Intelligence, acted firmly after it was revealed that some federal workers working in national intelligence agencies were involved in "obscene, pornographic, and sexually graphic" chat rooms associated with the National Security Agency (NSA).
"Memo sent. We know who they are. Action is underway," Gabbard posted on X (formerly Twitter).
The participants, who were allegedly from the NSA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and the US Naval Intelligence, discussed sensitive issues, such as gender-reassignment procedures, artificial genitals, hormone therapy, polyamory, and pronoun choice.
As reported by Fox News, a DIA officer who had been through gender transition surgery reportedly posted graphic messages describing their experience of "being penetrated." Other threads described laser hair removal, hormone replacement therapy, and breast enlargement, among others.
Some of the participants also spoke of "sexual arousal post-operation" and other explicit personal moments. The chats were said to cover spending "thousands of dollars" in Italy and Thailand for gender-reassignment surgeries, and descriptions of being groped in public at a concert and referring to oneself with "it/its" pronouns.
After the publication of the Intelink chat logs on Monday, an NSA official confirmed that the agency is "actively investigating" possible abuse of the messaging platform.
The logs are said to have originated from groups tagged "LBTQA" and "IC_Pride_TWG" on the Intelink messenger.
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