The whistleblower complaint engulfing Tulsi Gabbard accused her of suppressing a sensitive phone call between a close Trump ally and a foreign official concerning Iran, reports say.
The Director of National Intelligence was accused by an anonymous whistleblower last May of deliberately suppressing information about the phone call within US intelligence agencies.
According to the Wall Street Journal, sources say the discussion was intercepted by an NSA contractor, and 'concerned issues related to Iran.'
It is unclear who the close Trump ally or foreign official were, with the existence of the complaint only emerging this week following an eight-month standoff over how to share it with Congress.
Gabbard has denied any wrongdoing, and in a statement to the Journal her spokeswoman said that 'every single action' she took 'was fully within her legal and statutory authority.'
The spokeswoman reportedly did not address questions about the substance of the complaint, but said that the allegations against Gabbard are 'baseless and politically motivated.'
Gabbard's rep added that the former acting Inspector General, Tamara Johnson, determined the whistleblower complaint could not be verified as credible.
Following months of legal wrangling over the complaint, Johnson's replacement Christopher Fox, who previously served as an aide to Gabbard, presented the complaint's details to a select group of members of Congress on Monday.
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