Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is the subject of a whistleblower complaint involving material so classified, it’s been withheld from Congress for months and reportedly locked away in a safe as the Trump administration considers what to do with it.
Details on the whistleblower complaint, filed last May, appear in a bombshell Wall Street Journal report published Monday that refers to the situation as a “cloak-and-dagger mystery” befitting a spy novel. From the report:
The filing of the complaint has prompted a continuing, behind-the-scenes struggle about how to assess and handle it, with the whistleblower’s lawyer accusing Gabbard of stonewalling the complaint. Gabbard’s office rejects that characterization, contending it is navigating a unique set of circumstances and working to resolve the issue.
A cloak-and-dagger mystery reminiscent of a John le Carré novel is swirling around the complaint, which is said to be locked in a safe. … It also implicates another federal agency beyond Gabbard’s, and raises potential claims of executive privilege that may involve the White House, officials said.
In a statement to the Journal, a spokesperson for Gabbard’s office confirmed the existence of the complaint but called it “baseless and politically motivated.” The Journal quotes the whistleblower’s lawyer, Andrew Bakaj, who said it was “confounding for [Gabbard’s office] to take weeks — let alone eight months — to transmit a disclosure to Congress.”
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