Top lawmakers on the House and Senate Intelligence committees are set to review an official’s whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, after months of asking to receive it.
Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate committee, told reporters at a press conference that he is expecting to see the sensitive complaint as soon as Tuesday.
“I’m going to see that complaint imminently,” Warner said. “I have not received it, but I think it is literally today or tomorrow.”
Warner said the Gang of Eight, which is made up of the top Democrat and Republican in both chambers of Congress as well as the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees, had repeatedly asked Gabbard’s agency to turn over the complaint.
“It took six months of bipartisan pressure to get them to bring it forward,” Warner added.
A whistleblower filed the complaint of wrongdoing, whose contents are not known, against Gabbard in May, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. A spokesperson for the inspector general told the outlet that the intelligence community inspector general decided when it was filed that some elements of the complaint were credible, and that other elements could not be determined either way.
A spokesperson for Gabbard told the outlet that she gave her staff the guidance to send “appropriate details” of the complaint to Congress. Her spokesperson also dismissed the complaint as “baseless and politically motivated” to The...
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