Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard confirmed Sunday that multiple whistleblowers have come forward following the release of documents and a memo detailing what she described as a coordinated effort by the Obama administration to subvert Donald Trump’s presidency after the 2016 election.
Speaking with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, Gabbard said the disclosures have triggered new movement inside the intelligence community. “We have whistleblowers … coming forward now,” she stated, “because there are people who were around, who were working within the intelligence community who [were] so disgusted by what happened.”
According to Gabbard, those individuals are prepared to support ongoing efforts to expose and prosecute those involved in what she called a “treasonous conspiracy.”
The documents released Friday by Gabbard point to a pattern of intelligence manipulation and political coordination designed to cast Trump as compromised by Russia. Central to those claims is the December 9, 2016 Situation Room meeting led by then-President Barack Obama.
It was there, Gabbard alleges, that the intelligence community was directed to shape its assessments around the unverified Steele Dossier—a product of the Clinton campaign’s opposition research.
Gabbard is calling for full accountability. “There must be indictments,” she said. “Those responsible, no matter how powerful they are or were at that time… must be held accountable.”
While Special Counsel John Durham did secure a single guilty plea in 2020 from former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith—related to altering a FISA warrant targeting Trump adviser Carter Page—Gabbard suggested Durham’s investigation failed to uncover the full extent of the operation.
“I don’t know what excuse there is for those who supposedly investigated this previously… that they were not able to put together the dots,” she added.
Durham’s final report, released in May 2023, concluded that the FBI had no verified intelligence justifying the launch of its Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the Trump campaign. It also confirmed that the Steele Dossier, a key component in the surveillance justification, was uncorroborated. During a 2022 trial, FBI analyst Brian Auten testified that the Bureau offered Christopher Steele $1 million to validate the claims in the dossier. Steele failed to do so.