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More Emerges on Complaint Against Gabbard

DNI chief is accused of playing politics with classified information, plus holding back complaint

(Newser) - A complaint made about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard months ago relates to an allegation that she withheld access to classified information for political reasons, according to a memo sent to lawmakers by the inspector general's office and obtained by the AP . That allegation in the complaint filed...

Gabbard Coordinated Call Between Trump, FBI Agents

National intelligence director defends her presence at a raid of Fulton County elections hub

(Newser) - Tulsi Gabbard's surprise presence at an FBI raid of an election center in Georgia has drawn the criticism of Democrats, but the director of national intelligence is defending herself in a letter to lawmakers. Key points:
  • Trump directive: Gabbard says President Trump himself asked her to attend the raid
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Spy Chief's New Mission: Find 2020 Election Fraud

Democratic senator had wondered why the director of national intelligence was at an FBI election office raid in Georgia

(Newser) - The US director of national intelligence, a job that usually focuses on foreign and national security threats, has been assigned to a priority of President Trump's: Investigate the 2020 election for evidence of fraud. Tulsi Gabbard has been devoting much of her time to reexamining the presidential election won...

Trump: My Intel Chief Is 'Wrong' on Iran's Nukes

Tulsi Gabbard, meanwhile, says her testimony in Congress on the matter was taken out of context

(Newser) - President Trump on Friday said that his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was "wrong" when she previously said that the US believed Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon, suggesting it would be "very hard to stop" Israel's strikes on Iran in order to negotiate a...

WSJ: Trump Admin Takes 'Concrete Step' in Push for Greenland

Denmark responds after sources say intelligence agencies told to ramp up spying

(Newser) - Amid the Trump administration's ongoing rhetoric regarding a possible takeover of Greenland , two sources tell the Wall Street Journal the US is ordering its intelligence agencies to increase spying in the semiautonomous Arctic territory. Specifically, the administration wants information on Greenland's independence movement as well as how residents...

Feds: Texter Wrote 'Prepare to Die' to Tulsi Gabbard

Georgia man, 24, charged with transmitting interstate threats

(Newser) - A Georgia man has been arrested after allegedly threatening to kill Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and her husband. Aliakbar Mohammad Amin, 24, of Lilburn, is facing a federal charge of transmitting interstate threats after allegedly writing to Gabbard and her husband, Abraham Williams, between March 29 and April...

Gabbard: 100 Intel Officers Fired for 'Brazen' Conduct

New national intelligence director calls for their termination by Friday over explicit chats

(Newser) - More than 100 intelligence officers across 15 agencies will be fired, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Tuesday—but this is no cost-cutting move. Gabbard said she issued a directive to terminate them for participating in sexually explicit conversations on a government chat tool. The New York Times reports...

Trump's Appointees Put Musk's Power to the Test

Patel, Gabbard among agency leaders telling employees not to justify their roles to Musk

(Newser) - Multiple government agencies run by Trump-appointed leaders have told employees not to respond to an email from Elon Musk , demanding they provide five bullet points explaining the work they got done over the past week. "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation," Musk wrote Saturday on...

Tulsi Gabbard Confirmed as Director of National Intelligence

Senate Republicans fall in line, vote to confirm

(Newser) - Tulsi Gabbard will be overseeing 18 different intelligence agencies as President Trump's director of national intelligence, after the Senate confirmed her for the post on Wednesday. Despite initial Republican doubts about her qualifications for the job, the vote fell largely along party lines, with 52 Senate Republicans voting to...

Tulsi Gabbard Passes Key Vote in Senate

Skeptical Republicans on Senate Intelligence Committee faced pressure from Trump allies

(Newser) - Tulsi Gabbard has moved a step closer to becoming director of national intelligence. The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee voted 9-8 in a closed-door meeting Tuesday to advance her nomination to a full Senate vote, the Washington Post reports. During her confirmation hearing before the panel last week, senators from both...

Kennedy's Fate May Rest With One Senator on Tuesday

Both he and Tulsi Gabbard face committee votes on their Trump nominations

(Newser) - It's a do-or-die day for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard on their Cabinet nominations. The Senate Finance Committee will vote Tuesday morning on whether to advance Kennedy as health secretary, and the intelligence committee will vote in the afternoon on whether Gabbard should oversee the nation's...

Senator to Gabbard: It May Be Illegal to Confirm You

Democrat Warner says she doesn't meet federal requirements to be director of national intelligence

(Newser) - It's another big day for confirmation hearings, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. back for a second day in his bid to become health secretary and Kash Patel being grilled as the potential FBI chief. But also on Capitol Hill Thursday is Tulsi Gabbard, chosen by President Trump to become...

A Hare Krishna Offshoot Has Guided Gabbard's Views

Nominee for national intelligence post had an unorthodox upbringing in Hawaii

(Newser) - Of all President Trump's still-to-be-confirmed nominees, Tulsi Gabbard may have the toughest odds, reports the Hill . The former congresswoman, who may oversee the nation's spy agencies as the director of national intelligence, will be grilled this week by the Senate Intelligence Committee, where she cannot lose a single...

Gabbard Makes Key Reversal Amid Nomination Fight

DNI pick backs an intel-gathering tool she formerly opposed

(Newser) - This will be a busy week of confirmation hearings for many of President-elect Trump's Cabinet nominees, but one of his more controversial picks probably won't be among them. Democrats appear to have successfully delayed the hearings for Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's pick to be director of national intelligence...

DOJ, DNI Weigh In on Trump's Declassification Claim

Agencies say there's no record that ex-president had 'standing order' to declassify Mar-a-Lago docs

(Newser) - Former President Trump's claim that he had a "standing order" to declassify documents taken from the White House to Mar-a-Lago has long been debunked as "dubious" and called "total nonsense" by Trump White House officials. Now, another blow to Trump's story: the Week reports that...

3 Jarring Quotes on China From Top Intelligence Official

Avril Haines testifies before Senate Intelligence Committee

(Newser) - The director of national intelligence testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday, and what she said wasn't exactly comforting. In fact, Sen. Angus King said in response to the intelligence community's annual report on worldwide threats, "My recommendation is, don't read it just before you go...

Hundreds More UFOs Recorded, Some With 'Unusual' Traits

Most sightings remain unexplained, per government report

(Newser) - There's been a "dramatic increase" in reported UFOs —or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP)—since the government office in charge of sightings released its last report in June 2021, per CNN . The Office of the Director of National Intelligence's initial report included 144 reports of "unidentified...

Top US Intelligence Official: Putin Ready to Outlast Us All

Avril Haines sees him as 'preparing for a prolonged conflict'

(Newser) - The country's top intelligence official spoke at a Senate hearing Tuesday, and the updates she provided on the Ukraine invasion weren't encouraging. US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines painted Vladimir Putin as digging in his heels and "preparing for a prolonged conflict," suspecting he'll...

America's Spy Chief Slammed China. China Now Responds

John Ratcliffe's 'WSJ' op-ed was a 'hodgepodge of lies,' per China's foreign ministry rep

(Newser) - In an "exceedingly rare" accusation on Thursday, the US director of national intelligence called China "the greatest threat to America today, and the greatest threat to democracy and freedom worldwide since World War II." China is now responding to John Ratcliffe's op-ed in the Wall Street ...

Spy Chief Issues Rare Condemnation of China
Nation's Spy Chief Just
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Nation's Spy Chief Just Unloaded on China

DNI John Ratcliffe calls Beijing the greatest threat to democracy since World War II

(Newser) - The nation's top intelligence official just unloaded on China in unusual fashion. "The People’s Republic of China poses the greatest threat to America today, and the greatest threat to democracy and freedom worldwide since World War II," writes director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe in a...

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