Tulsi Gabbard relied on a whistleblower's claims to remove two senior intelligence officials, firing NSA mathematician Vinh Nguyen and ousting Shelby Pierson. The acting director of the NSA attempted to protect Nguyen's security clearance but failed after a presidential order. The whistleblower's allegations conflicted with conclusions by Kash Patel and John Ratcliffe and contained numerous flaws, misreadings, rumors, and apparent grievances. The complaint involved a misreading of a 2017 ICA Key Judgment and a belief that Nguyen and Pierson had concealed the Steele dossier's role. The complaint's disorganized presentation raises concerns about the whistleblower's analytical reliability.
The acting director of the National Security Agency tried to protect one of his top scientists from losing his security clearance as Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, prepared to announce the move this week, according to officials briefed on the matter. The effort failed. Ms. Gabbard, on orders from President Trump, fired the scientist, who was a leading government expert on artificial intelligence, cryptology and advanced mathematics.
SCWB also seems to harbor a grievance against Shelby Pierson based on his own conspiratorial misunderstanding. Pierson warned against Russian interference in 2020, and had since moved back to lead the analytical team at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. She was ousted along with Nguyen. So this whistleblower complaint appears to have led to the ouster of two senior intelligence officials.
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