Tulsi Gabbard has referred two intelligence officials to the Department of Justice for allegedly leaking classified information - with a third referral on its way.

The unidentified officials allegedly leaked the classified intelligence to the Washington Post and the New York Times, an Office of the Director of National Intelligence official told Fox News Digital. 

'Politicization of our intelligence and leaking classified information puts our nation's security at risk and must end,' Gabbard, who serves as the director of national intelligence, said as news of the pending charges broke.

'Those who leak classified information will be found and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law,' she vowed.

Gabbard then went on to claim that the 'deep state criminals leaked classified information for partisan political purposes to undermine President Trump's agenda.

'I look forward to working with the Department of Justice and the FBI to investigate, terminate and prosecute these criminals.'

The move to refer the three officials for criminal prosecution comes as Trump officials ramp up their investigations into possible leak, with Gabbard establishing a new task force last month to root out unauthorized disclosures of classified intelligence.

She said at the time that a 'leaker within the IC sharing information on Israel / Iran with the Washington Post' was among the 'unauthorized leaks' she was looking at, according to Axios.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has since conducted an internal review and sent the criminal referral to the Justice Department, a source inside the office told Fox News.

The Department of Justice would then send a referral to the FBI to begin a formal criminal investigation.

'We are aggressively investigating other leaks and will pursue further criminal referrals as warranted,' the source said.

'Any intelligence community bureaucrat who is considering leaking to the media should take this as a warning.'

Meanwhile, the Department of Defense is conducting its own probe into possible leaks amid increased scrutiny of the department following Secretary Pete Hegseth's and other top Cabinet officials' Signal chat with the Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.

Just last week, in fact, Deputy Chief of Staff Darin Selnick, Hegseth's top adviser Dan Caldwell and Colin Carroll ,chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg were fired.

Caldwell and Selnick were even personally escorted from the premises. 

In the aftermath, the trio released a statement saying they were 'incredibly disappointed by the manner in which our service at the Department of Defense ended' and decrying 'baseless attacks' on their character.