The Deep State is terrified of Tulsi Gabbard.
And they just deployed the same playbook they used to destroy Trump.
But The Wall Street Journal just got caught using the exact same dirty trick on Tulsi Gabbard that launched the Russia hoax.
Whistleblower complaint against Gabbard collapsed the moment someone looked at it
A so-called "whistleblower" filed a complaint against Tulsi Gabbard alleging wrongdoing too sensitive to disclose.
The complaint landed on the desk of Tamara Johnson, a career official who served as acting inspector general of the intelligence community during the Biden administration.
Johnson reviewed it and closed the case because it lacked credibility.
That should have been the end of the story.
But The Wall Street Journal decided to breathe life into this dead complaint anyway.
The paper published a breathless piece this week about the complaint while strongly implying that classification alone suggests guilt.
To heighten the drama, the WSJ compared the episode to a John le Carré spy novel.
That's where things got hilarious.
In le Carré's most famous work, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the entire plot revolves around a compromised source feeding phony intelligence into the system.
British intelligence goes on a manhunt for a threat that doesn't exist.
What appears sensitive turns out to be the lie itself.
The classification isn't evidence — it's the cover-up.
So yes, the WSJ comparison is perfect.
Just not in the way they intended.
The Russia collusion playbook gets recycled for the hundredth time
The mechanics are simple and have been deployed repeatedly over the last decade.
First, make an allegation against a political target.
The allegation doesn't need evidence.
It doesn't even need to be coherent.
Second, wrap the allegation in extreme classification.
Make it "super sensitive," bury it in a restricted annex, or otherwise render it inaccessible.
Third, leak the existence of the allegation and let the secrecy do the work.
The absence of detail generates intrigue, classification becomes proof of gravity, and that gravity gets presented as evidence.
This is exactly what CIA Director John Brennan, DNI James Clapper, and FBI Director James Comey did with the Obama-ordered Intelligence Community Assessment in 2017.
The objective was to saddle incoming President Trump with the Russia-collusion narrative.
The method was to launder the fraudulent Steele dossier into something that appeared official.
Brennan, Clapper, and Comey embedded the known fabrication in a highly classified annex of the ICA.
The mere fact of its inclusion was then leaked to CNN, which broke the story days before Trump was sworn in.
That's how a lie the FBI already knew to be false acquired the appearance of gravity solely because it was secret.
The 2020 House Intelligence Committee report revealed that Brennan wouldn't remove the discredited dossier from the ICA despite objections from senior CIA officials who said it failed basic standards.
Senior CIA officers told investigators that Brennan dismissed their concerns about the dossier's credibility by asking whether the allegations didn't "ring true" despite lacking verification.
The Ukraine impeachment followed the same template.
A "whistleblower" complaint about Trump's phone call was treated as inherently damning because it was designated as sensitive.
When Trump released the actual transcript, it became clear no misconduct had occurred.
By that stage, the false narrative was already entrenched.
Andrew Bakaj represented the Ukraine whistleblower in 2019.
He's the same attorney now representing the whistleblower against Gabbard.
Gabbard is being targeted because she's actually holding people accountable
Tulsi Gabbard isn't a random official caught in bureaucratic crossfire.
She's one of the few senior figures in this administration actively pursuing accountability against the institutions that manufactured these earlier hoaxes.
The Wall Street Journal's attack arrived days after Gabbard was present at the FBI raid on the Fulton County election office.
At President Trump's direction, and in her role overseeing election security, she was on site as materials tied to the contested 2020 Georgia election were seized pursuant to a warrant.
That alone explains the reaction.
Democrats and their media allies don't want a proven fighter with real authority anywhere near investigations into their own conduct.
In July 2025, Gabbard exposed Barack Obama's central role in orchestrating the Russia-collusion hoax by releasing documents showing not only Obama's involvement but also that U.S. intelligence agencies didn't believe Russia preferred Trump.
Obama personally ordered creation of the ICA after meeting with Brennan, Clapper, Susan Rice, and Andrew McCabe on December 9, 2016.
The actual intelligence pointed in the opposite direction of what the ICA claimed.
Gabbard's work cuts through the weaponized secrecy that protects corrupt officials.
She's releasing documents that prove the Russia hoax was manufactured from the top.
She's overseeing raids that could expose election fraud.
She's doing the accountability work other officials only pretend to pursue.
The intensity of the backlash against her proves the point.
When you're taking flak, you're over the target.
Sources:
- Hans Mahncke, "WSJ's Tulsi Gabbard Hoax Is Straight From The Russia-Collusion Playbook," The Federalist, February 5, 2026.
- Anders Hagstrom, "Tulsi Gabbard aides slam Wall Street Journal over whistleblower story," The Hill, February 3, 2026.
- Dan De Luce, "Tulsi Gabbard accused of trying to 'bury' whistleblower complaint," NBC News, February 2, 2026.
- Jim Jordan, "House Judiciary Committee Refers John Brennan To DOJ For Criminal Prosecution," House Judiciary Committee, October 21, 2025.
- Gregg Jarrett, "CIA report exposes intelligence officials who framed Trump in Russia hoax," Fox News, July 7, 2025.
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence, "New Evidence Uncovers Obama-Directed Creation of False Intelligence Report," July 18, 2025.
- Paul Sperry, "Two Colleagues Contradict Brennan's Denial of Reliance on Dossier," RealClearInvestigations, May 14, 2018.
- Andrew Bakaj, Wikipedia, accessed February 2026.
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