The whistleblower complaint that Trump’s spy chief locked away in a safe implicated someone with close ties to the president of having contact with foreign intelligence.
A whistleblower’s lawyer told The Guardian that last spring, the National Security Agency detected what the outlet reported on Saturday as “an unusual call” between someone associated with foreign intelligence and an individual close to President Donald Trump.
When National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard was informed, she took a paper copy of the memo to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. The day after that meeting, she instructed the NSA to send the highly classified details to her office instead of publishing them, according to the whistleblower’s attorney Andrew P. Bakaj.
Gabbard was accused of hiding the complaint made against her in a safe. Bakaj, who was briefed on the sensitive phone call, told The Guardian that the whistleblower first contacted the office of the intelligence community inspector general about the burying of the highly classified materials on April 17, 2025.
The whistleblower then filed a formal complaint on May 21, 2025. That complaint did not become known to Congress until November.
A leaked memo revealed that the complaint accused Gabbard of refusing to share a “highly classified intelligence report” for “political purposes.” Tamara Johnson, the inspector general at the time, dismissed the complaint last June because she “could not determine if the allegations appear...
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