NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump

[applegrove]

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump

Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

Cate Brown
Sat 7 Feb 2026 18.58 GMT

yeah seems bad www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

— Toby Earle 🇺🇦 (@tobyontv.bsky.social) 2026-02-07T19:32:11.982Z

Last spring, the National Security Agency (NSA) detected evidence of an unusual phone call between an individual associated with foreign intelligence and a person close to Donald Trump, according to a whistleblower’s attorney briefed on the existence of the call.

The highly sensitive communique, which has roiled Washington over the past week, was brought to the attention of the director of national intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard – but rather than allowing NSA officials to distribute the information further, she took a paper copy of the intelligence directly to the president’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, the attorney, Andrew Bakaj, said.

One day after meeting Wiles, Gabbard told the NSA not to publish the intelligence report. Instead, she instructed NSA officials to transmit the highly classified details directly to her office.

Details of this exchange between Gabbard and the NSA were shared directly with the Guardian and have not been previously reported. Nor has Wiles receipt of the intelligence report.

[orangecrush]

1. Red Tulsi

[SheltieLover]

2. Should probably read "hostile foreign govt."

Guess who? Tulsi and Kremlin.

[Initech]

6. Russia? China? Saudi Arabia?

[SheltieLover]

7. ruskies

[Initech]

9. Everything comes back to Russia.

[SheltieLover]

10. Just as Nancy said, "Russia, Russia, Russia..."

[UpInArms]

3. All roads led back to Putin

Dirty dirty dirty

[Initech]

11. Remember 10 years ago when they said "Don't you dare question Russia!"?

Now, not only are they cool about it, they're actively trying to cover it up. Our president and his entire party, with the aid of Rupert Murdoch, corrupt billionaires and the Heritage Foundation, are actively engaged in the largest treason plot in United States history.

They all need to be rooted out and arrested now.

[Bluetus]

4. Well, it isn't exactly news that Trump and everybody around him are pals with Putin

It seems there must be more to this than meets the eye. Surely, it was the NATURE of the contact that caused the whistleblower to act.

[Blue Owl]

5. The compromised pedophile

[SamuelTheThird]

8. This looks connected, a comment I read

a coauthor of Project 2025 was added to the inspector general’s office two weeks after the whistleblower first filed their complaint.