MAINE MONITOR • April 4, 2025
For more than a decade, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence included the mounting impacts of climate change in its annual reports on global and regional threats to U.S. national security. But the U.S. intelligence community’s fact-based, nonpolitical streak came to a screeching halt last month. The 2025 threat assessment, which the Trump administration released on March 18, makes no mention of climate change or other environmental threats, part of a broader administrative effort to scrub such references from government websites and documents. At a Senate hearing last week, Maine Sen. Angus King (I) used part of his allotted time to interrogate Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard about the sudden change.