A U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a whistleblower complaint filed last year, according to the official’s lawyer and Gabbard’s office.
The attorney for the intelligence official, Andrew Bakaj, said Monday that the complaint was filed in May with the intelligence community’s inspector general and that in June, the whistleblower asked that it be shared with lawmakers. He accused Gabbard of trying to hide the complaint from Congress.
“After nearly eight months of taking illegal actions to protect herself, the time has come for Tulsi Gabbard to comply with the law and fully release the disclosure to Congress,” Bakaj said in a statement released by Whistle Blower Aid, a nonprofit group that represents government and private sector employees seeking to expose wrongdoing.
“The Inspector General’s independence and neutrality is non-existent when the director of national intelligence illegally inserts herself into the process,” he said.
The Wall Street Journal first reported on the whistleblower complaint. The Journal reported that Gabbard’s office had not shared the whistleblower complaint because it was trying to work out security guidance to safeguard the information in it.
The substance of the complaint has not been divulged by administration officials or the whistleblower’s lawyer. The whistleblower’s lawyer, Bakaj, told NBC News he has not seen the complaint.
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