A whistleblower says the United States national intelligence chief blocked routine processing of a report exposing a call between an individual linked to foreign intelligence and a person close to Donald Trump.
Andrew Bakaj, the whistleblower’s attorney, said the “highly sensitive” intelligence concerning the call that took place “last spring” was reported to the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, The Guardian wrote on Saturday.
Instead of allowing the NSA to circulate the report through routine channels, however, Bakaj said, Gabbard took a paper copy directly to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.
The attorney said that one day after meeting Wiles, Gabbard instructed the NSA not to publish the intelligence report and ordered officials to rather send the classified material directly to her office.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), though, denied the account.
“This is yet another attempt to distract from the fact that both a Biden-era and Trump-appointed Intelligence Community Inspector General already found the allegations against DNI Gabbard baseless,” it claimed.
Whistleblower complaint and review
Bakaj said the whistleblower contacted the intelligence community inspector general on April 17, saying that Gabbard had blocked highly classified intelligence from routine dissemination. A formal complaint was filed on May 21.
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