The intelligence community is ‘rife with abuse of power and unauthorised leaks of classified information’, the department’s director said.

Incidentally, this is true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT

Obviously this isn’t why they’re allegedly slashing 40%. I doubt the booj are that dumb that they’d cannibalize it purely for cost cutting (…right?) so I assume it’s an attempted ideological purge.