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MaddowBlog-Tulsi Gabbard's role in the FBI's Fulton County raid goes from bad to worse
The DNI is legally prohibited from taking part in domestic law enforcement. So why was she with the FBI in Georgia?
With Tulsi Gabbard spending months trying to bolster Trump’s 2020 conspiracy theory, while also trying and failing to discredit Trump’s Russia scandal, I’m genuinely curious:
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-01-30T18:31:01.941Z
Who’s done the job of the DNI? www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/tulsi-gabbard-role-fbi-fulton-county-raid-election-2020
Even if we were to remove Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard from the equation altogether, the FBI’s execution of a search warrant at the Fulton County elections office near Atlanta as part of Donald Trump’s ongoing crusade related to his 2020 election defeat would still be awfully tough to defend.....
But that Gabbard, eager to work her way back into the White House’s good graces, personally participated in the raid in Georgia, adds a scandalous element to a burgeoning controversy. As a Politico report summarized:
The administration’s official line is that the DNI “has a pivotal role in election security and protecting the integrity of our elections against interference, including operations targeting voting systems, databases, and election infrastructure.”
That might sound vaguely reasonable — except as Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, explained, if Gabbard had reason to believe Georgia’s ballots had been compromised by foreign actors (a highly dubious idea, to be sure), it’d be incumbent on her to bring those concerns to the attention of Congress’ intelligence committees — which she has not done.....
The Wall Street Journal, meanwhile, reported that the DNI’s appearance in Fulton County was part of a larger pattern of efforts:
If the Journal’s report, which has not been independently verified by MS NOW, is correct, it would suggest that Gabbard has spent the past several months less focused on her actual job — providing the president with accurate intelligence related to potential national security decisions — and more focused on Trump’s ridiculous conspiracy theories about his 2020 defeat.
This dovetails with Gabbard’s efforts last year related to Trump’s Russia scandal, which culminated in the DNI throwing around words such as “treason” while issuing evidence-free findings that proved baseless.
But that Gabbard, eager to work her way back into the White House’s good graces, personally participated in the raid in Georgia, adds a scandalous element to a burgeoning controversy. As a Politico report summarized:
Democrats, election experts and even some members of the Trump administration expressed alarm and bewilderment about why Tulsi Gabbard was on the scene as the FBI raided a Georgia election office that has been at the center of Donald Trump’s debunked claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
The administration’s official line is that the DNI “has a pivotal role in election security and protecting the integrity of our elections against interference, including operations targeting voting systems, databases, and election infrastructure.”
That might sound vaguely reasonable — except as Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, explained, if Gabbard had reason to believe Georgia’s ballots had been compromised by foreign actors (a highly dubious idea, to be sure), it’d be incumbent on her to bring those concerns to the attention of Congress’ intelligence committees — which she has not done.....
The Wall Street Journal, meanwhile, reported that the DNI’s appearance in Fulton County was part of a larger pattern of efforts:
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has spent months investigating the results of the 2020 election that Donald Trump lost, according to White House officials, a role that took her to a related FBI search of an election center in Georgia on Wednesday.
Gabbard is leading the administration’s effort to re-examine the election and look for potential crimes, a priority for the president, the officials said.
If the Journal’s report, which has not been independently verified by MS NOW, is correct, it would suggest that Gabbard has spent the past several months less focused on her actual job — providing the president with accurate intelligence related to potential national security decisions — and more focused on Trump’s ridiculous conspiracy theories about his 2020 defeat.
This dovetails with Gabbard’s efforts last year related to Trump’s Russia scandal, which culminated in the DNI throwing around words such as “treason” while issuing evidence-free findings that proved baseless.
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