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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard took aim at Senator Mark Warner of Virginia and the media, denouncing the claims against her regarding a whistleblower’s report as utter nonsense.
Warner’s comments came in response to a Wall Street Journal article published on Monday, which alleged that Gabbard was withholding a “highly classified” whistleblower complaint. The report indicated that the secrecy of the document had led to prolonged debates about its disclosure to Congress.
This scenario feels straight out of a suspenseful spy thriller.
Interestingly, the initial complaint did not implicate Gabbard in any wrongdoing. Instead, it pointed to alleged misconduct within an intelligence community program.
The Wall Street Journal’s piece relied heavily on anonymous sources and included a revealing detail: a spokesperson for the inspector general noted that the allegations against Gabbard were deemed unsubstantiated, although some aspects could not be conclusively resolved.
Of course, the WSJ report was based almost entirely on anonymous sources and also contained this little tidbit: “A representative for the inspector general said the office had determined specific allegations against Gabbard weren’t credible, while it couldn’t reach a determination on others.”
Mark Warner doesn’t care about such niceties (or the facts). In an NBC interview Thursday, he accused Gabbard of trying to keep it all secret and said she was “not competent to do the job.”
Gabbard fired back:
Senator Mark Warner and his friends in the Propaganda Media have repeatedly lied to the American people that I or the ODNI ‘hid’ a whistleblower complaint in a safe for eight months.
This is a blatant lie.
The truth: – I am not now, nor have I ever been, in possession or control of the Whistleblower’s complaint, so I obviously could not have “hidden” it in a safe. Biden-era IC Inspector General Tamara Johnson was in possession of and responsible for securing the complaint for months.
Senator Mark Warner and his friends in the Propaganda Media have repeatedly lied to the American people that I or the ODNI “hid” a whistleblower complaint in a safe for eight months. This is a blatant lie.
The truth:
– I am not now, nor have I ever been, in possession or…
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) February 7, 2026
As RedState’s streiff reported, the fact that the deep state knives are out for her shows she’s doing something right.
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Tulsi had more in her long post, and said that she could hardly have buried the report months ago since she only reviewed it recently:
The first time I saw the whistleblower complaint was 2 weeks ago when I had to review it to provide guidance on how it should be securely shared with Congress.
– As Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Warner knows very well that whistleblower complaints that contain highly classified and compartmented intelligence—even if they contain baseless allegations like this one—must be secured in a safe, which the Biden-era Inspector General Tamara Johnson did and her successor, Inspector General Chris Fox, continued to do. After IC Inspector General Fox hand-delivered the complaint to the Gang of 8, the complaint was returned to a safe where it remains, consistent with any information of such sensitivity.
House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Rick Crawford (R-AR) said that Gabbard is right, there’s simply no there there:
.@HouseIntel has received the letter from IC IG Fox on the alleged whistleblower complaint, and the Ranking Member and I, along with the appropriate staff, have had the opportunity to review the complaint. After doing so, I concur with the conclusion that the Biden-era IC IG,… https://t.co/Ni6blpz8zy
— Rep. Rick Crawford (@RepRickCrawford) February 3, 2026
…I concur with the conclusion that the Biden-era IC IG, Tamara Johnson, reached regarding the non-credible nature of the complaint and the re-review that the current IC IG, Chris Fox, conducted, reaching the same conclusion. The ensuing media firestorm—fed by speculation and little fact—was an attempt to smear @DNIGabbard and the Trump Administration.
Gabbard then punched back at Warner by saying that if there was anyone unqualified in the matter, it certainly wasn’t her:
– Either Senator Warner knows these facts and is intentionally lying to the American people, or he doesn’t have a clue how these things work and is therefore not qualified to be in the U.S. Senate—and certainly not the Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
She then laid out a detailed chronology of the situation, which she argued could lead to only one conclusion:
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.
Ouch. I met Ms. Gabbard at an event once, and she was extremely pleasant. That being said, I’m going to make sure never to tick her off.
Editor’s Note: The Deep State “resistance” is real.