"I can't think of anything more unusual, but this entire thing is stacked with unprecedented kind of setting asides of mores and rules, because you have the director of national intelligence flying in on the scene, leading an FBI operation, a criminal investigation, a domestic criminal investigation on U.S. soil. Remember, the DNI has no investigative authorities. If you read IRTPA, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act that creates the office, the DNI has no investigative authority. It has no authority to supervise or run an investigation by another agency. The intelligence community should be focused on foreign threats. And here is the director of national intelligence on the ground."
"On Wednesday, FBI agents executed a search warrant at the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center in Georgia, which President Donald Trump lost in 2020. The president has falsely claimed that the election was rigged against him. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who has no authority over the FBI, was on the scene. Trump said Gabbard is working very hard to find evidence of election fraud after the bureau seized ballots from the facility. The New York Times reported on Monday that Gabbard and multiple FBI agents were on the phone with Trump in the FBI's Atlanta field office, discussing the raid a day later."
"The next day, after the raid, she's in the FBI office putting the agents on the phone after debriefing them with the president, who basically gives them an attaboy speech after asking them questions about the case, what a great job they're doing."
FBI agents executed a search warrant at the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center in Georgia, where President Donald Trump lost in 2020. The president has claimed the election was rigged against him. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who lacks authority over the FBI, was present at the scene during the raid. Ballots were seized from the facility during the operation. Gabbard and multiple FBI agents were on the phone with the president from the FBI's Atlanta field office the day after the raid, discussing the operation. The presence of the DNI at an onshore criminal investigation and the subsequent phone call with the president were described as bizarre and unprecedented. IRTPA, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, provides that the DNI has no investigative authority and cannot supervise or run another agency's investigation. The intelligence community's normal focus on foreign threats contrasts with the DNI's on-the-ground involvement in the domestic inquiry. The president praised the agents during the phone call after they were debriefed.
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