The Knives Are Out for Tulsi Gabbard as She Closes

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is onto one thing. And the fitting people are terrified.

As my colleague Bob Hoge reported, after Gabbard appeared on the scene at the operation to secure the multi-year crime scene that is the Fulton County, Georgia, Election Hub and Operation Center (see FBI Raids Fulton County Election Hub Days After Trump Vows Prosecutions for 2020 Election – Here We Go – CrimsonState and 700 Boxes of Ballots Seized After FBI Executes Fulton County Warrant, Dems Try to Develop ‘Legal Plan’ – CrimsonState), she was the subject of thinly sourced, scurrilous “leak” to The Wall Street Journal that appeared to have the only objective as sidelining her with a fake scandal; see Tulsi Gabbard Comes Out Full Throttle Against ‘False and Slanderous Accusations’ From Dems and Media – CrimsonState.

To recap, the Wall Street Journal ran an “exclusive” on Monday that appeared to declare Gabbard had executed one thing. However, a truthful studying of the article would not make it very clear what she did or did not do.

U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a whistleblower grievance that is so extremely categorised it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to U.S. officers and others acquainted with the matter.

The submitting of the grievance has prompted a persevering with, behind-the-scenes wrestle about how to assess and deal with it, with the whistleblower’s lawyer accusing Gabbard of stonewalling the grievance. Gabbard’s workplace rejects that characterization, contending it’s navigating a distinctive set of circumstances and working to resolve the issue.

Thirteen, that is 13, paragraphs into the article, we discover this gem.

Gabbard answered written questions about the allegations from the inspector basic’s workplace, a senior official at the spy company said. That prompted the performing inspector basic at the time, Tamara Johnson, to decide the allegations particularly about Gabbard weren’t credible [my italics—streiff], the official said. Johnson stays employed at the company, which didn’t make her obtainable for an interview.

As it turned out, there was no delay in producing the “security guidance” from DNI Gabbard on how to deal with the report. The whistleblower’s grievance is with the Congressional Intelligence Committees for review, and Gabbard produced the receipts.

Contrary to the blatantly false and slanderous accusations being made against me by Members of Congress and their mates in the propaganda media, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has and will continue to take motion under my statutory authorities to secure our… pic.twitter.com/eX4Kdnp8oU

— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) February 3, 2026

As that “scandal” was getting a serving to push from the media, the “why was she even there?” narrative was launched by The Washington Post.

There are “only two explanations” for why Gabbard was in Fulton County on Wednesday, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark R. Warner (D-Virginia) said at the listening to.

One is that she believes there’s a “legitimate foreign intelligence nexus,” he said, in which case Gabbard “violated her legal obligation to keep the intelligence committees fully and currently informed,” or she is making an attempt to insert the intelligence neighborhood into what Warner called “a home political stunt designed to legitimize conspiracy theories that undermine our democracy.’’

The New York Times went for the capillaries with a story that President Trump had congratulated the brokers who had participated in the Fulton County operation.

By any measure, the F.B.I.’s search of an election heart in Fulton County, Ga., last week was extraordinary. Agents seized truckloads of 2020 ballots, as President Trump harnessed the levers of authorities to not only buttress his false claims of widespread voter fraud, but also to strive to construct a legal case against those he believes wronged him.

What occurred the next day was in some methods even more uncommon, The New York Times has discovered.

Behind closed doorways, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, met with some of the same F.B.I. brokers, members of the bureau’s discipline workplace in Atlanta, which is conducting the election inquiry, three people with data of the assembly said. They couldn’t say why Ms. Gabbard, who also appeared on web site at the search, was there, but her continued presence has raised eyebrows given that her function overseeing the nation’s intelligence companies doesn’t embrace on-site involvement in legal investigative work.

What occurred during the assembly was even additional exterior the bounds of regular law enforcement process. Ms. Gabbard used her cellphone to call Mr. Trump, who didn’t initially decide up but called back shortly after, the people said.

The coordinated marketing campaign across the nation’s three most prestigious print retailers to discredit DNI Gabbard and her investigation into what is more and more wanting like a completely fraudulent 2020 election is eerily comparable to how the Deep State labored to sandbag President Trump during his first time period.

On August 12, 2019, an nameless intelligence neighborhood whistleblower, now recognized to be Eric Ciaramella (see Whistleblower’s Attorneys Make a Desperate and Pathetic Attempt to Silence the Free Press and a Free People – CrimsonState), filed a formal grievance with the Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson. The grievance alleged that Trump abused his workplace by soliciting international interference in the 2020 U.S. election. The international interference, of course, was President Trump allegedly asking Ukrainian President Zelensky for data on the Biden administration’s and Hunter Biden’s dealings with Ukraine and its power company, Burisma.

By mid-September 2019, media experiences, significantly in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, based on nameless sources, started to emerge, revealing the outlines of the whistleblower grievance and particulars that Trump pressured Zelenskyy during the July call to examine the Bidens.

Keep in thoughts that all of this was executed in a “hall of mirrors,” so to communicate, where rumors and leaks and interpretations of those rumors and leaks turned the trigger for the nothingburger that was Trump’s impeachment trial. That said, the impeachment served the aim of freezing U. S. diplomacy and hamstringing President Trump for a essential period of time as the demented Joe Biden was prepped to be the Democrat nominee for president.

While none of the hits on Gabbard, up until this level, are enough to power her resignation, I do assume The New York Times provides us some insight into the long sport the Deep State is pursuing. First, there may be evidence on the market, lurking in the backrooms of Fulton County, GA, and some other jurisdictions where large numbers of Biden ballots mysteriously appeared after the polls closed. The drawback is how to forestall them from ever being subjected to public scrutiny.

By talking instantly with the investigators, Mr. Trump could have offered vital ammunition to any future protection ought to the investigation yield legal fees.

His dialog with the brokers would in all probability turn into half of an effort to have the case dismissed as a vindictive prosecution. Alternatively, if such a case went to trial, protection attorneys would presumably strive to elicit testimony from the F.B.I. brokers who spoke to the president in the early phases of the investigation, or probably from Mr. Trump himself.

The search itself raises critical questions. It is unclear what evidence was offered to a federal Justice of the Peace decide to set up possible trigger for a search warrant for the ballots and other supplies, that are now more than 5 years outdated.

But a number of prior investigations — including one at the end of Mr. Trump’s first time period by the same F.B.I. workplace and federal prosecutors working at the time for the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Atlanta — discovered no evidence to assist his false claims of vital voter fraud.

The very fact that somebody is pulling out all the stops to discredit the investigation into election integrity in 2020, and presumably since, is a signal that one thing very legal and harmful occurred. It is also a signal that those behind that election, even if they are not making an attempt to pull the same trick again in 2026 and past, are terrified of what would occur if their machinations got here to gentle.

If our elections are corrupt, that calls into query every motion of the federal government and breaks the bond between “We the People” and the Founders that was created in 1787. It will not be troublesome to imagine that hostile international actors are concerned, as nicely as our own self-hating elites. The fact that Gabbard was on the ground for the FBI, serving a search warrant, factors to a vital intelligence drawback alongside the uncooked criminality. The response signifies there may be more of this to come.

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