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The complaint was filed last May with the intelligence community’s inspector general, WSJ reported in its description of a November letter to Gabbard from Bakaj. It’s understood to also implicate another federal agency and to raise potential claims of executive privilege, suggesting possible White House involvement.

Members of the House and Senate intelligence panels first learned of the complaint in November, six months after it was filed, when a copy of Bakaj’s letter was shared with them, WSJ reports. Since then, Democratic staffers have tried unsuccessfully to learn more about it, congressional aides told the newspaper.

The complaint is so highly classified that Bakaj hasn’t been able to view it himself; a spokeswoman for Gabbard’s office confirmed that the complaint involved Gabbard but dismissed it as “baseless and politically motivated.”

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[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 21 hours ago

Sounds like shes an active asset of a foreign power. Gee, what a shock /s

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

Could be a whole lot of things. My first guess would be that she, either purposefully or through sheer incompetence, leaked something that is important to keep secret, given that Donald's people have managed to do this several times already.

Maybe in this case it was just Chinese or Russian people who got the info instead of a principled American journalist.

[-] st3ph3n@midwest.social 7 points 21 hours ago

Appointing her to that job has already done grave damage to national security.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

Gonna go out on a limb here and just assume that, if there's a whistleblower complaint and Donald's cronies are afraid to share it with a Congress that is totally controlled by more of Donald's cronies, that it's gotta be really, really, really bad.

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