Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard responded to an accusation that she hid a whistleblower complaint for nearly eight months on X Saturday, calling it a “blatant lie.”
Earlier this week, Whistleblower Aid said in a statement that in May 2025, a person they represented told the Intelligence Community Inspector General about their complaint. In June, that whistleblower requested that this disclosure be transmitted to Congress.
“Since then, Director Gabbard has repeatedly stonewalled and thwarted its release because she is the subject of that complaint,” Whistleblower Aid, a non-profit legal organization that works with public and private sector workers, said.
A report by The Wall Street Journal said the complaint is “locked in a safe” because “its disclosure could cause ‘grave damage to national security,’” one official said.
Gabbard said in her X post, that she has “not now, nor have I ever been, in possession or control of the Whistleblower’s complaint.”
“I obviously could not have ‘hidden’ it in a safe,” she wrote. Instead, Gabbard said her first time seeing the complaint was two weeks ago, when she had to “review it to provide guidance on how it should be securely shared with Congress.”
Gabbard said she became aware that a whistleblower made a complaint against her in June 2025.
“I was made aware of the need to provide security guidance by [Intelligence Community] Inspector General Chris Fox on December 4, 2025, which he detailed in his letter to Congress,”...
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