Overview
- A whistleblower alleges the NSA detected an unusual 2025 call involving a person close to President Trump and a foreign‑intelligence‑associated actor, with the DNI later restricting distribution.
- The whistleblower’s attorney says Tulsi Gabbard took a paper copy to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and told the NSA not to publish the report, which Gabbard and ODNI strongly deny.
- Both the former acting inspector general Tamara Johnson and current IG Christopher Fox concluded key allegations were not credibly substantiated, and Fox wrote he would not have deemed the matter urgent.
- Heavily redacted materials were hand‑delivered to congressional leaders under read‑and‑return rules after a White House review for possible executive privilege, drawing partisan reactions from Sen. Mark Warner and Sen. Tom Cotton.
- The New York Times, as cited by The Independent, reported the underlying intelligence involved two foreign nationals discussing a person close to Trump as well as Iran, while the whistleblower’s lawyer plans an unclassified briefing for committees.