BOULDER, COLORADO.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said Thursday he had reviewed a whistleblower complaint alleging wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and agrees with intelligence watchdogs who found it to not be credible.
“I agree with both inspectors general who have evaluated the matter: the complaint is not credible and the inspectors general and the DNI [director of national intelligence] took the necessary steps to ensure the material has handled and transmitted appropriately in accordance with law,” Cotton, who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, wrote on the social platform X.
“To be frank, it seems like just another effort by the president’s critics in and out of government to undermine policies that they don’t like; it’s definitely not credible allegations of waste, fraud, or abuse,” he continued.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the whistleblower’s attorney, Andrew Bakaj, accused Gabbard in a November letter of deliberately withholding the complaint from members of Congress by failing to provide security guidance on accessing it.
The Journal reported that an official said the complaint’s contents could cause “grave damage to national security,” so much so that it had to be “locked in a safe.”
The complaint also reportedly implicated another federal agency beyond Gabbard’s, and the article noted it is “so highly classified that Bakaj said he hasn’t been able to view it himself.”
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