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Thursday, March 5, 2026

SCOOP: Tulsi Gabbard rejects “false” whistleblower claims as “politically motivated” - Washington Reporter

The office of Director of National Intelligence (DNI) rejects a report about a whistleblower complaint that alleges DNI Tulsi Gabbard limited the distribution of a classified report for political reasons and that a legal office in the intelligence community (IC) did not refer a potential crime to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for political reasons.

One senator who viewed the complaint against Gabbard described it as “bunk.” Gabbard’s team, led by press secretary Olivia Coleman, described the whistleblower complaint as 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.”

Gabbard’s team points to a conclusion from the Biden-era Intelligence Community Inspector General (IC IG), which looked into the whistleblower’s allegations against Gabbard, and determined that they “did not appear credible.” This is “a fact that [the Wall Street Journal] conveniently buried 13 paragraphs down,” Coleman said.

Despite claims by Democrats, like the ranking member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Sen. Mark Warner (D., Va.) that Gabbard delayed the release of the whistleblower complaint and that she “does not understand the basic obligations of her role,” an...



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