Last May, a classified whistleblower complaint alleged misconduct by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and another unnamed federal agency.
Under normal circumstances, the whistleblower would be allowed to share their complaint with Congress.
But that’s not what happened.
Instead, after the complaint was filed, Gabbard placed a mole in the intelligence community’s inspector general’s office to report directly to her. And the oversight office, which is supposed to independently investigate the 18 intelligence agencies, kept the complaint locked in a vault for eight months, until a series of front-page articles forced the IG to share the complaint with Congress.
The secrecy prevented Congress from making a prompt determination at a time when Gabbard’s appointees have proved themselves willing to distort the truth, and highlights the precarious position of intelligence community whistleblowers.
The complaint
It’s tempting to speculate what the complaint could be about. It’s impossible to say, but the biggest public story about the intelligence community last May was the release of an intelligence community memo that completely undercut the Trump administration’s rationale for invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans to El Salvador.
The memo was released to me in response to my Freedom of Information Act request. Shortly after the document made headlines, Gabbard fired several of the officials who authored the memo, as well as employees who worked in...
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