So, let the whistleblower testify to a Congressional committee (that includes Democrats, needless to say).
So, is it related to the tag of "Russian Asset" she's been getting for at least a couple years, coming up again after being seen sneaking around the raid of the Fulton County, Georgia, election office?
Allison Gill and Andy McCabe speculate in their most recent podcast on the Gabbard in Georgia incident: In 2020, Trump wanted to use the military to seize voting machines but was told the only way he could legitimately do that is if there was foreign interference in the election - something various investigations and accounts verified didn't happen. Now, recently, he kidnapped Nicolas Maduro and has him over a barrel so Maduro could be induced with threats and/or offers to "admit" Venezuela was indeed interfering in the 2020 election, as some Trump lackeys were claiming back then. Gabbard's appearance in the raid on Georgia election offices puts the smell of national security on it. Seems complex, but not out of the realm of possibility.
A simpler explanation for her appearance there is she knows she's falling out of favor with Trump and has been sidelined in the administration, and showing Trump she's on board with the 2020 stolen election might put her back in his good graces.
Still, the Gill-McCabe scenario can't be easily dismissed.
UPDATE 03:10 pm:
Take over voting in at least 15 places. How are you going to "nationalize voting" in anything fewer than 50 states?
Nothing to see here.
UPDATE 07:45 pm: This makes Gill and McCabe's speculations seem even more likely...
UPDATE 02/03/2026: Further evidence to give credence to Gill and McCabe's speculation. The Maduro kidnapping wasn't about Venezuela's governance.
UPDATE 02/12/2026: Apparently, the secretive whistleblower complaint has something to do with Jared Kushner.
They would, wouldn't they?The whistle-blower report was based on a telephone intercept provided to the N.S.A. from a foreign intelligence service.
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Because the intelligence report mentioned Mr. Kushner, Ms. Gabbard provided the information to Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, according to people briefed on the events.
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The whistle-blower report was drafted last May, while the Trump administration was deliberating about a strike on Iran. At the end of June, the military bombed Iranian nuclear sites on Mr. Trump’s orders.
Mr. Kushner has subsequently helped lead negotiations between the administration and Iran over Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs and its sponsorship of terrorism across the Middle East. He also has business interests in the Middle East and in other parts of the world.
The episode has led to clashes over how to interpret the mention of Mr. Kushner in the discussion and whether Ms. Gabbard was improperly seeking to keep the intelligence from being distributed within the intelligence community.
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The names of Americans, particularly senior U.S. officials, are usually redacted from accounts of intelligence intercepts, a process called masking.
The foreign nationals were discussing Mr. Kushner, but some officials who have read the underlying intelligence or been briefed on its contents downplayed the significance of the references to him.
NYT
I have no doubt they were.The foreign nationals, they said, were commenting on Mr. Kushner’s influence with the Trump administration.
Probably true, but that could depend on what was reported.The intercept also included what officials described as “gossip” or speculation about Mr. Kushner that was not supported by other intelligence. Some senior officials said the information was demonstrably false. While the whistle-blower believed that information should be circulated, the N.S.A.’s general counsel, Ms. Gabbard and the intelligence community’s inspectors general disagreed.
Officials declined to describe the gossip, saying that revealing it would expose the source of the information.
The complaint, the investigation of the complaint and the underlying intelligence all remain classified.
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Some officials who either read or were briefed on the intelligence report said that had Ms. Gabbard not moved to restrict access to the report, it would have been quickly forgotten as one of many that recount foreign officials trying to figure out who has influence with Mr. Trump.
"I'd like you to claim Venezuela interfered with the 2020 election and is planning to interfere in 2026 and 2028."A heavily redacted copy of the inspector general’s report was provided to Congress. Ms. Gabbard’s office redacted Mr. Kushner’s name, citing executive privilege.
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Ms. Gabbard had previously pulled back and then restricted access to another N.S.A. intercept. That intelligence report involved an intercept of a call between Nicolás Maduro, then the Venezuelan president, and Richard Grenell, Mr. Trump’s envoy. Names of U.S. officials recorded in intelligence intercepts are supposed to be masked, and Ms. Gabbard argued the N.S.A. had failed to properly conceal Mr. Grenell’s identity. Mr. Grenell was negotiating with Mr. Maduro on Mr. Trump’s orders.
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