The Same Day the CIA Spy Story Broke Tulsi Gabbard Announced She Is Leaving

The CIA spy story dropped Friday morning. By afternoon, Tulsi Gabbard was gone.

The CIA ran out the clock.

Now the woman it surveilled, sabotaged, and stonewalled is stepping down – and the unfinished investigation she was running is causing a firestorm.

CIA Spied on Every Keystroke of Gabbard's Investigators

Gabbard's task force – the Director's Initiatives Group, or DIG – was not a rogue operation.

It was a team of presidential investigators working directly under the nation's top intelligence officer, with a mandate to dig into the CIA's most explosive secrets: the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations, the origins of COVID-19, Crossfire Hurricane, and Havana Syndrome – the mysterious brain injuries the CIA spent years insisting weren't caused by a foreign weapon.

According to CIA whistleblower James Erdman III – a senior operations officer who testified under oath before Sen. Rand Paul's Senate Homeland Security Committee on May 13 – the CIA responded by surveilling everyone involved.

"The CIA illegally monitored the computer and phone usage of DIG personnel, their investigations, and contact with whistleblowers," Erdman testified.

That included secure phone lines – the kind that require an internal engineering work order to tap – while investigators were on calls with whistleblowers.

A CIA contractor who helped the DIG investigate COVID origins was fired the morning after he met with the team.

One day. The message was clear: cooperate with Gabbard's investigators and lose your career.

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The CIA Withheld the Evidence From Gabbard Herself

The surveillance was one piece of a coordinated obstruction campaign.

The CIA blocked the DIG's access to key analysts still inside CIA headquarters, withheld documents ordered for declassification, and hid intelligence directly from Gabbard – the woman who legally runs the entire intelligence community.

Forty boxes of JFK and MKUltra documents were removed from ODNI's jurisdiction before the team could review them.

The DIG's Havana Syndrome report – which found Biden-era CIA analytic tradecraft "defective" and recommended recalling the 2023 and 2024 Intelligence Community Assessments – was finalized, prepped for release, and buried against fierce internal resistance.

It remains classified today.

Judicial Watch filed suit this week to force its release.

The DIG itself was dissolved in January before it could complete its work – shut down while the subjects of its investigation were still running the building.

This Is What the CIA Does When Someone Gets Too Close

Here is what your media won't tell you.

In 2014, the CIA did the exact same thing to the Senate Intelligence Committee – spied on congressional computers while senators investigated the CIA's Bush-era torture program. CIA Director John Brennan denied it, called the allegations baseless, then apologized when his own Inspector General confirmed it happened.

That was a Democratic-controlled Senate. Democrats were furious.

This time, not a single Democratic senator showed up for Erdman's testimony.

The CIA dismissed the hearing as "dishonest political theater."

Rand Paul called it what it was: "Government secrecy cannot become government impunity."

Biden's fingerprints are all over the underlying cover-up. Erdman testified under oath that CIA scientists concluded as early as 2021 that COVID-19 most likely came from a lab leak in Wuhan – and that senior Biden officials buried those findings, altered the report, and issued a cleanup assessment after the 2024 election specifically so they could leave office claiming nothing was left to find.

"That is not analysis," Paul said. "That is a cleanup operation."

Gabbard Is Gone – and the CIA Is Still Winning

Gabbard submitted her resignation Friday in a letter to President Trump, effective June 30.

She cited her husband Abraham's recent diagnosis with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. "At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle," she wrote.

Trump confirmed the departure on Truth Social, praising her for doing an "incredible job" and naming Principal Deputy Director Aaron Lukas as acting DNI.

The CIA doesn't care why she's leaving. It only cares that she's leaving – and now it's won.

The Havana Syndrome report is still locked away. Thousands of classified COVID documents Erdman referenced remain sealed. The contractor is still fired. And the CIA is still calling congressional oversight "political theater."

General Flynn posted Friday morning invoking JFK's famous vow to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds," tagging JD Vance directly.

That's now Vance's problem to solve – and the whole country is watching to see if he has the guts to solve it.

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Sources:

• Catherine Herridge, "EXCLUSIVE: Strong indicators CIA was tracking DNI Gabbard team emerged months ago," Independent/Substack, May 22, 2026.
• Tyler Olson, "Exclusive: Tulsi Gabbard resigns as DNI over husband's rare bone cancer diagnosis," Fox News, May 22, 2026.
• Tyler Olson, "CIA whistleblower alleges Biden admin buried COVID-19 lab leak analysis," Fox News, May 13, 2026.
• Gabe Kaminsky and Jerry Dunleavy, "CIA Spooks Spied On Tulsi Gabbard's Team As It Probed Deep State, Whistleblower Alleges," The Daily Caller, May 15, 2026.
• Josh Christenson, "Senate Hearing Featuring CIA 'COVID Cover-Up' Whistleblower Sparks Unexplained Behind-the-Scenes Anger, Shock," Washington Stand, May 16, 2026.
• NTD Staff, "ODNI Says It's Investigating Allegations CIA Spied on Gabbard Task Force," NTD, May 15, 2026.