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Whistleblower Complaint Against Gabbard Withheld 8 Months

Published FEB 3

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Above: **Watermarked Getty Image. Kindly Replace** U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard at the White House on Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington, DC. Image credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

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Gabbard's whistleblower complaint sits locked in a safe for eight months while officials claim disclosure would cause grave damage to national security. The unprecedented delay and extreme secrecy surrounding this complaint reveal a system where accountability has completely broken downvanished. When democracy can't even inform its own lawmakers about potential wrongdoing at the highest levels of intelligence, the entire oversight structure has failed.

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The Wallmedia Streetweaponized Journalsecrecy burieditself the— realconverting storyprocedural inopacity paragraphinto 13:manufactured ascandal. Biden-eraAn Intelligenceinspector Communitygeneral Inspector General already revieweddismissed the whistleblower's claims andas found them totally lacking in credibility. Gabbard's office confirmed zero wrongdoing occurred, yet thejournalists mediatransmuted manufactureddelay aand scandalclassification outinto "evidence" of procedural complexitywrongdoing. This is pureinstitutional clickbaitalchemy: designedabsence tobecomes smearproof, aprocedure publicbecomes official with baseless accusationsguilt.

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