Donald Trump’s spy chief has locked a potentially explosive whistleblower complaint against her away in a safe as she battles with lawyers about sharing its details with Congress.
The exact contents of the complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard are mired in secrecy but described as possibly posing “grave damage to national security” if disclosed, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Filed by an unidentified intelligence official, the complaint against Gabbard also includes a separate allegation involving another federal agency and potential claims of executive privilege concerning the White House.
Gabbard’s office maintains the complaint is “baseless and politically motivated.”
The whistleblower first filed the document in May 2025 with the inspector general of the intelligence community.
Andrew Bakaj, a lawyer for the whistleblower, has reportedly written to Gabbard accusing the national intelligence chief of deliberately stonewalling the complaint’s disclosure to lawmakers.
In particular, Bakaj accuses Gabbard and her team of not providing any information on whether it had found the complaint credible, or any guidance on how to share the document with relevant members of Congress.
“From my experience, it is confounding for [Gabbard’s office] to take weeks—let alone eight months—to transmit a disclosure to Congress,” the attorney told WSJ in a statement.
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