Weird things are happening in the U.S. government right now, and on Monday, the Wall Street Journal published an unsettling report reminding us that we—and Congress—don’t even know the half of it.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has been accused of…something…by a whistleblower within her department, who filed a complaint to the intelligence community’s inspector general in May. In precedented times, these kinds of complaints are typically handled by Congress, and the onus of secure transmission falls on the DNI. But it’s been eight months, and Congress still hasn’t seen the complaint, which is allegedly so potentially explosive that it’s reportedly been locked in a safe.
The whistleblower’s lawyer, Andrew Bakaj, is accusing Gabbard of stalling the process. The WSJ notes that the inspector general’s office usually only takes a couple of weeks to look into claims before informing Congress. A rep told the WSJ that the inspector general determined the allegations against Gabbard herself weren’t credible, but couldn’t determine whether the other allegations were credible or not—but Bakaj said his office was never informed about any of those findings.
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