Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard is getting backup from key lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee, after a highly-classified whistleblower complaint alleging that she restricted the distribution of an intelligence report for political purposes came out.
The “whistleblower complaint against Director Gabbard is just another attempt to smear the Trump administration,” Rep. Austin Scott (R., Ga.), the chair of the subcommittee on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that oversees the DNI, explained to the Washington Reporter. This is Scott’s first public defense of Gabbard amidst the fallout from the whistleblower complaint.
“The media conveniently omits the fact that both the Biden-era [Intelligence Community Inspector General] Tamara Johnson, and current IC IG, Chris Fox, determined the complaint to be non-credible,” Scott added. Gabbard’s own team made similar points to the Reporter in rejecting the report; one GOP senator who viewed the report described it as “bunk.”
The complaint, Gabbard’s press secretary Olivia Coleman, said, is a “classic case of a politically motivated individual weaponizing their position in the Intelligence Community, submitting a baseless complaint and then burying it in highly classified information to create 1) false intrigue, 2) a manufactured narrative, and 3) conditions which make it substantially more difficult to produce ‘security guidance’ for transmittal to Congress.”
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