Aides for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard attacked the Wall Street Journal over a Monday article spotlighting a whistleblower report accusing the Trump Cabinet official of wrongdoing.
The Journal reported the whistleblower’s complaint is so “highly classified” that it is “said to be locked in a safe” because its contents are so critical to national security. The whistleblower’s attorney has not seen the complaint, nor has Congress, a situation described in the report as “without known precedent.”
The article says the intelligence community’s acting inspector general determined allegations against Gabbard weren’t credible after receiving answers from Gabbard about them. But a credibility determination could not be made about another allegation in the complaint related to a “different federal agency.”
The whistleblower’s attorney, Andrew Bakaj, in a November letter, accused Gabbard of keeping the complaint from Congress by not offering security clearance guidance for reading it, reported the Journal, which saw the letter. Bakaj also told the Journal he was never informed that any credibility determinations were reached by the inspector general’s office.
Gabbard’s chief of staff ripped into the story in a post on X.
“As if the @WSJ needed to provide more examples of how it’s utter trash,” Alexa Henning wrote.
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