US intelligence agencies have intercepted an unusual telephone conversation between a person connected to a foreign intelligence agency and a person close to US President Donald Trump, The Guardian reported.
According to the article, the National Security Agency intercepted the conversation in question as early as spring 2025. However, the newspaper reports, citing the whistleblower's lawyer, that when the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard received this information, she did not disseminate it, but instead passed it directly to the White House Chief of Staff Susan Wiles.
According to the British publication, Gabbard then ordered the agency not to publish its report, but to send her all materials on the matter directly. The Guardian confirms that the full details of the discussion between the director of national intelligence and the agency have not been made public before.
The whistleblower filed a formal complaint against Gabbard in May 2025, according to his lawyer. However, the article does not name the person close to the US leader, nor does it specify which national intelligence agency the person may represent.
On February 7, Gabbard called allegations in X that she had "covered up" a complaint filed by an unnamed whistleblower for eight months "false and baseless". She also accused Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and several U.S. media outlets of spreading false information.
“I don't have and never have had such a complaint, so I certainly couldn't hide it in a safe“, Gabbard stressed, claiming she first saw the document “two weeks ago“. She said the information contained in the message was reviewed by Tamara Johnson, the inspector general of the intelligence community appointed by the former Biden administration. After that review was completed, “no further investigative or oversight actions were taken,” Gabbard noted.