U.S. intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard has issued a point-by-point denunciation of what she believes is the news media/Democrat Party’s latest bum steer.
She accuses Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner, Virginia Democrat, of lying about how she handled a classified whistleblower complaint.
“Senator Warner’s decision to spread lies and baseless accusations over the months for political gain, undermines our national security and is a disservice to the American people and the Intelligence Community,” she said Saturday.
The latest anti-Trump uproar among Democrats involves three main actors: the intelligence employee whistleblower, the person’s Democrat-aligned lawyer and Mr. Warner, whose politics increasingly align with Virginia’s deep dive to the left.
The murky story involves an accusation that Ms. Gabbard, the Trump administration’s director of National Intelligence, temporarily hid from Congress a whistleblower complaint about a purported intercepted phone call between two foreign intelligence officials who were heard talking about someone who knows President Trump.
As a backdrop, in recent years Democrats have elevated an occasional hoax into a regular part of their anti-Trump political operation.
The Christopher Steele 2016 dossier, which the Clinton campaign and the FBI used to try to destroy Mr. Trump, turned out to be fiction.
The ongoing dump of Jeffrey Epstein files spawned new hoaxes, such as Mr. Trump having Thanksgiving dinner with the sex...
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