Tulsi Gabbard: Whistleblowers ‘Coming Out of the Woodwork’ Since Document Release
Gabbard became the first Trump administration official to publicly use the words “Obama” and “treason” in the same sentence.
As we all know, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified and released more than 100 documents related to the real collusion of 2016 — between President Barack Obama and his top lieutenants in the months before and after the presidential election.
Although it had long been believed that Obama was aware of and involved in the politicization of intelligence designed to ensnare his successor’s administration in a web of legal and political entanglements, the newly released documents provide the clearest insight yet into his role in the scandal.
But Gabbard didn’t stop there. She became the first Trump administration official to publicly use the words “Obama” and “treason” in the same sentence. For many of us, it was a moment of relief—a green light to finally say out loud what we’ve discussed in private for years.
Unsurprisingly, legacy media outlets have remained largely silent about the document release. This is in keeping with their pattern of avoiding coverage that could be politically damaging to the Democratic Party.
Meanwhile, Republicans have welcomed the move, claiming the new documents confirm the long-suspected corruption of the Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election (ICA) and its use as a political weapon to delegitimize the incoming Trump administration.
Gabbard shared some very good news on Sunday during an interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo. First, she announced that additional documents would be released in the coming week.
Better still, Gabbard revealed that whistleblowers from within the intelligence community have come forward since Friday. Among them are individuals who worked on the original Intelligence Community Assessment—the one that concluded Russia had attempted to interfere in the 2016 election, but those efforts had no impact on the final outcome.
In the exchange below, Bartiromo asks Gabbard, “Will we ever see anyone held accountable for this incredible lie on the American people?”
Gabbard replied:
I will do all that I can, and we have whistleblowers, actually, Maria, coming forward now, after we released these documents, because there are people who were around, who were working within the Intelligence Community at this time, who were so disgusted by what happened. We are starting to see some of them coming out of the woodwork here, because they, too, like you and I and the American people, want to see justice delivered.
So we’re going to provide everything that we have, everything that we will continue to gather, to the Department of Justice for that direct intent and that direct purpose. There must be indictments. Those responsible, no matter how powerful they are and were at that time, no matter who was involved in creating this treasonous conspiracy against the American people, they all must be held accountable.
TULSI: "THERE MUST BE INDICTMENTS"
WHISTLEBLOWERS ARE COMING FORWARD NOW 🚨🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/VsysPaHWxV— Storm Trader 📈 (@Stormtrader7) July 20, 2025
In May, CIA Director John Ratcliffe commissioned members of the agency’s Directorate of Analysis to conduct a “lessons-learned” review of the ICA. Ratcliffe released the results of that review earlier this month.
The New York Post’s Miranda Devine summed up its findings:
The review found that the ICA was deliberately corrupted by then-CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who were “excessively involved” in its drafting, and rushed its completion in a “chaotic,” “atypical” and “markedly unconventional” process that raised questions of a “potential political motive.”
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Brennan’s decision to include the discredited Steele dossier, over the objections of the CIA’s most senior Russia experts, “undermined the credibility” of the assessment.
According to the review, “the ICA authors and multiple senior CIA managers — including the two senior leaders of the CIA mission center responsible for Russia — strongly opposed including the Dossier, asserting that it did not meet even the most basic tradecraft standards. … CIA’s Deputy Director for Analysis (DDA) warned in an email to Brennan on December 29 that including it in any form risked ‘the credibility of the entire paper.’”
If some of these individuals are coming forward now, their testimony could help the Department of Justice build a stronger case against those responsible for what increasingly looks a lot like treason.
In an interview with Devine, Ratcliffe said, “This was Obama, Comey, Clapper, and Brennan deciding ‘We’re going to screw Trump.’”
He continued:
It was, ‘We’re going to create this and put the imprimatur of an IC assessment in a way that nobody can question it.’ They stamped it as Russian collusion and then classified it so nobody could see it.
This led to Mueller [special counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry, which concluded after two years that there was no Trump-Russia collusion]. It put the seal of approval of the intelligence community that Russia was helping Trump and that the Steele dossier was the scandal of our lifetime. It ate up the first two years of his [Trump’s first] presidency.
You see how Brennan and Clapper and Comey manipulated [and] silenced all the career professionals and railroaded the process.
All the world can now see the truth: Brennan, Clapper and Comey manipulated intelligence and silenced career professionals — all to get Trump. Thank you to the career @CIA officers who conducted this review and exposed the facts. https://t.co/S7Mxz6xA6P
— CIA Director John Ratcliffe (@CIADirector) July 2, 2025
I’ll leave you with this:
Putting Tulsi on the terrorism watch list probably was not the best idea. pic.twitter.com/X3kYMw6dI9
— Big Fish (@BigFish3000) July 20, 2025
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Heads should roll. BIG heads. Not some vice assistant secretary of communications for one of the treasonous bigwigs at the top of this major scandal, but the decision making treasonous leaders.
Bondie needs to jump on this fast.
A word of caution to Tulsi:
Many acquaintances of Hillary have been suicided for a lot less than this.
It’s your job to see this through. Don’t let us down.
This needs a special prosecutor. Even if big heads don’t roll, it needs to be documented.
Documents my ass.
I WANT HEADS!!
Doesn’t matter how much you or I want it. Nothing is going to happen to Barack Obama.
He’s untouchable
I hear the surf outside his house can be… treacherous.
Remember John Brennen…
I’d love to see Brennan frogmarched into the federal pen in an orange jumpsuit to become some gang member’s b*tch.
The furor over the Epstein Files and calls for Bondi to resign are because of the information coming out now about Obama’s plot against Trump. The Deep State and it’s political enablers want to hamstring and impede any DOJ investigation by getting rid of Bondi and prolonging confirmation of her successor.
The furor over Trump’s cover-up of the Epstein files is because ordinary people are outraged that creepy old men of the international elite can rape troubled little girls on American soil with impunity, and with the govt’s complicity. (Research the involvement of Jim Acosta, whom Trump later appointed Sec’y of Labor.)
Trump’s Epstein scandal isn’t going away without full release of who Epstein’s clients were. Only a sick, Machiavellian sort of political animal would want it to.
Your obsession with Epstein has rendered you flatulent and impotent.
Read the last sentence of my post.
Life is about to become very stressful for Tulsi Gabbard. Deep-stater Mark Warner struck the first blow over the weekend.
I saw a humorous tweet that noted Biden’s decision to put Tulsi on the terror watch was not wise.
I admire Tulsi’s courage. She knows what’s coming and decided to move forward anyway.
Oops. So I see that you included that tweet. Sue me — I don’t always read to the very end.
When will she mention Barry Soetoro?
Do you mean the guy who was born outside the US? The same guy who registered for college as a foreign student?
There is still a lot to uncover with that guy.
He was undoubtedly installed by his puppetmaster. I’d love to know who’s pulling his strings.
There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever for either of those assertions. They’re pure BS made up by idiots and liars.
Your adamant, forceful denial is strong evidence to the contrary.
Maybe the Dhimmi-crats can stop their hyperbolic and obsessive denunciations of Watergate and focus on their deity’s (and, his cabal’s) brazen lawlessness, subversion of democracy and general chicanery, which are 1,000 times worse than Watergate, in terms of the scope of subversion and illegality.
“One day we will realize that the Barack Obama presidency was the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the
American people.”
– Clint Eastwood
Barry Soetoro, The high, plain grifter.
Obama was worried that Biden would screw things up, it turned out that Obama has done far worse than Biden. Is there any chance of capital punishment for the worst offenders.?
If any actual crimes can be found, there should surely be indictments. But I don’t see how those charges could possibly include treason. Unless evidence emerges that one or more actors in this scandal were motivated by loyalty to Iran, China, or some other enemy of the USA, and their purpose was to aid that enemy rather than for some domestic political advantage, treason is not an available option.
The definition of Treason in the dictionary is not the definition laid out in the Constitution. Unlike some other parts it is crystal clear and consists only of waving war against the USA or aiding the enemy. People get confused by this. Article 3, Section 3
Waging war. Stupid spell check
There was a Supreme Court decision saying that calling someone a traitor does not imply that they’re guilty of the crime of treason. “Traitor” is an ordinary English word that means something like “betrayer”, and you can call someone a traitor because they betrayed their political party, or their spouse, or their business partner, or in any way failed at some real or imaginary duty of loyalty.
But “treason” as a crime means only what the constitution says. If you say “X is guilty of treason”, or “X should be tried for treason”, then you are talking about the criminal sense, and you are limited to the constitutional definition; whereas if you say something like “He cheated on his wife, and that treason poisoned their relationship”, you are clearly using it in a colloquial manner, not a legal one, and the constitutional definition doesn’t apply.
PS: In case it wasn’t obvious, it was a defamation case. The plaintiff said “You called me a traitor. That means I have committed the crime of treason, and yet I haven’t done that”. SCOUTS said no, that’s not what he meant, and there’s no defamation.
Yeah, treason is a very heavy lift to prove all the elements and it gets thrown around way too casually. Maybe it fits here, after all we haven’t seen what Gabbard has, but without a bunch more evidence it seems to be a reach.
There’s a constitutional definition of treason, and there’s the dictionary definition of treason. A lot of the latter don’t qualify under the former, and I consider it shortsighted of the founders. If giving away your country by inviting and abetting an invasion by foreigners is not treason against the American people, what the hell is it?
The founders were coming from a regime that was far too loose with treason charges. And they’d all themselves just committed treason a few years earlier. They wanted to make sure the new government would be very restricted in how it could bring such a serious charge, and that it could never use it to silence its enemies.
I understand that. I’m just saying they showed a distressing lack of imagination. Treason previously was always committed, at least nominally, against a king. The founders seem to have carried that unconscious bias into their definition, without taking into account that they had made the people sovereign, and now high government officials could commit treason against them instead.
And this is where we see statements and words and headlines are nothing but clickbait bullshit. Same as it ever was. Nothing will come of this, except more headlines, more spin, more fundraising and more campaigning. More “breaking news” “alerts”. Funded by more medicine and their commercials. Everyone’s in on it.
Conspiracy to obstruct both investigations and congressional testimony. Overt act the Mar-a-Lago raid on Trump seizing files related to this. Trials to be held in Florida. You didn’t hear it from me.
Democrats and their media and Deep State allies will dismiss this and anything like it because, as we all have learned, Democrats are all about protecting ‘our Democracy’. So anything they have to do is necessary in their world view. Protecting Democrats power and abuse of the law doesn’t matter because their mission is righteous.
The big question: will Obama get indicted, tried and convicted of something? Possible, but I doubt it as there are obstacles. The district courts are full of rogue judges who will sabotage the trial. Then what venue? Certainly not the Southern District of New which Robert Barnes calls out as the most corrupt in the country. I can believe that as I spent almost the first 40% of my life in New York. Everything there is corrupt. In DC? That would be worse. How would the prosecutors get an unbiased jury there? No way as black jurors in DC won’t convict “a brother.” It only takes one holdout to hang. I think getting 12 to acquit would happen. Even if the prosecutors get a conviction, the judge could provide a light sentence, or no sentence. Then I expect riots if Obama were convicted. DOJ prosecutors likely know all these obstacles, and won’t even bring charge no matter how strong the evidence. Obama had a Kenyan father. and that immunizes him.
I’ll say it again.
Anybody that thinks Barack Obama, the first black President, is going to be arrested, tried and imprisoned, is out of their ever loving F’ing mind
Not going to happen
As to a Kenyan father, check out Frank Marshall Davis. While you are at it look up Webster Hubbell. A picture is worth a thousand words.
Blah Blah Blah. The NYT had it on page 15 or something and WaPo isn’t even covering it. Forgive me for being a sceptic but if anyone other than the copy girl sees anything happen to them I’ll be stunned
The left will respond in one of three ways: 1. meh, so what, 2. your guy did worse, 3. proof that we were right about Trump targeting his political enemies. In any event, nothing will come of this beyond bluster.
Its not likely race based skin color protected Obama will face charges
Look to the Colorado Springs Co first black mayor who was “caught” taling to /conspiring? with some associates as the associates,,just days before the election
set up a hanging noose cross burning pr stunt and of course whts had to prove they werent racist so they elected him
and when the da was asked now what
he said
we are NOT going to go after the first aa mayor
Deanna West was one of three people who were indicted for the staging of the hate crime hoax, the two others being Derrick Patrick Bernard, Jr. and Ashley Danielle Blackcloud.
All three of them belonged to a non-profit called Family Flavors the Slide WBN, a “minority-owned independent broadcasting and multi-media organization.”
Mobolade, who is Nigerian, won the election as a left-leaning independent in the traditional Republican stronghold in 2023 after the n-word was scrawled on one of his campaign signs and a cross set ablaze in front of it. Video of the scene was sent to the media, resulting in a swell of sympathy.
At the five-day trial in federal court for Bernard and his wife, Ashley Blackcloud, that concluded May 23, FBI agent Ethan Doherty testified that the mayor falsely denied contact with Bernard, despite records showing the pair was in contact before, the day of the hate crime, and afterward.
Mobolade began using a new cell phone the day after the hoax.
When The Daily Wire notified spokeswoman Vanessa Zink about the allegation that Mobolade lied to the FBI, the mayor’s chief of staff, Jamie Fabos, intervened to encourage her to take an ad hominem approach, calling the Wire a “bizarre far right” outlet whose reporters “don’t actually qualify as journalists.”
I hope someone endeavors to explain what John Durham was doing during his 3+ year investigation other than spending tens-of-millions of dollars that resulted in not a single conviction. Did he not have access to any of this information? If not, why not?
Good question. Remember the recent news that the DoJ/FBI had an additional level of access on some restricted information? A layer that most didn’t know of even when conducting searches for Brady material to turn over as required? I suspect Durham wasn’t given authorized access to ‘secret squirrel’ materials.
Lawfare please. Congress investigates, some grand jury stuff, civil suits for rights violations and whatever else they can create. Obama has some very deep pockets. Perhaps he can loan his cronies some cash.
I’ve noticed that those attacking Gabbard and defending Obama are pointing to a red herring – the assessment that concluded Russia interfered with, or attempted to interfere with, a US presidential election. They’re trying to conflate “Russian interference” finding with the “Russian collusion” narrative, in order to conceal the latter by misdirecting attention to the former.
They do this because it works. The average sh*tlib is a readily manipulated total f*cking r*tard.
Hmm, deep state get Obama elected. Deep State fails to get Hillary Elected. deep state prevents Trump Presidency with 2 fake impeachments and Russia Russia, Russia, deep state create fake civil and criminal cases against Trump, deep state create fake insurrection, deep state create election fraud to elect brain dead Joe Biden, Deep state create BS Epstein issues…….so what is treason again?
Article III
Section 3
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
Interesting case:
Ex Parte Bollman and Ex Parte Swartwout, 8 U.S. 4 Cranch 75 75 (1807)
Ex Parte Bollman and Ex Parte Swartwout
8 U.S. (4 Cranch) 75*
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/8/75/
Interesting how Obama-appointed DOJ IG Michael Horowitz, a Dem donor, suddenly transferred to the Federal Reserve last month as the 35-pp “Clinton Annex” he bottled up for 7 years was finally being declassified. There was no compelling reason to censor it.
https://x.com/paulsperry_/status/1947360685987361203
Stealing a genius move by Tom Holman, Tulsi Gabbard encourages intelligence community professionals to “self report.”
Release the Kraken!
🤣🤣🤣🤪🤡