Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has denied withholding a whistleblower complaint from Congress, calling such claims from some “Gang of Eight” lawmakers “lies and baseless accusations.”
Gabbard issued a lengthy defense of her actions in dealing with the complaint, which dates back to May 2025 but was largely unknown until this week due to its highly sensitive nature. While details are thin, it accuses Gabbard of wrongdoing and alleges she withheld classified information “for political purposes.” Recent reporting has also revealed it was partly about an intelligence intercept of a call between two foreign nationals discussing someone close to President Donald Trump, a discussion that was about Iran.
“Senator Mark Warner and his friends in the Propaganda Media have repeatedly lied to the American people that I or the ODNI “hid” a whistleblower complaint in a safe for eight months. This is a blatant lie,” she posted on X on Saturday.
Gabbard said she has never been “in possession” of the complaint and “obviously” could not hide it in a safe, where it has been both before and after being hand-delivered to the Gang of Eight for solely a “read and return” review of its contents earlier this week. Gabbard also said the first time she saw it was just two weeks ago, when she reviewed it “to provide guidance on how it should be securely shared with Congress.
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