Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard detailed her ongoing election safety evaluation in a letter to congressional lawmakers Monday, saying President Trump “particularly directed” her to be current for the execution of a search warrant in Fulton County, Georgia final week as a part of the probe.
Gabbard despatched a letter, completely obtained by Fox Information Digital, addressed to Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Home Intelligence Committee Rating Member Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn. The letter was additionally despatched to Home and Senate management, in addition to GOP management on each committees.
The letter is in response to 1 despatched final week by Warner and Himes, during which they request Gabbard temporary them on why she was current on the FBI search of an election workplace in Fulton County, Ga. final month.
Gabbard introduced in April 2025 that ODNI was investigating digital voting methods with a view to shield election integrity.
Within the letter, obtained by Fox Information Digital, Gabbard stated President Trump “particularly directed” her to be on the FBI’s execution of a search warrant on the Workplace of the Clerk of the Courtroom of Fulton County, Georgia final month—on Jan. 28, 2026.
“For a quick time frame, I accompanied FBI Deputy Director Bailey and Atlanta Performing Particular Agent in Cost Pete Ellis in observing FBI personnel executing that search warrant, issued by the USA District Courtroom for the Northern District of Georgia pursuant to a possible trigger discovering,” she writes.
Gabbard stated her “presence was requested by the President and executed beneath my broad statutory authority to coordinate, combine, and analyze intelligence associated to election safety, together with counterintelligence (CI), overseas and different malign affect and cybersecurity.”
“The FBI’s Intelligence/Counterintelligence divisions are one of many 18 parts that I oversee,” she stated.
Gabbard stated that in twelve FBI discipline places of work throughout the nation, together with the Atlanta Area Workplace, the senior FBI official (assistant director in cost or particular agent in cost) is “dual-hatted as my Home DNI-Consultant.”
“The Home DNI-Rep program was established in 2011 via a Memorandum of Understanding between the ODNI and FBI,” Gabbard defined. “Home DNI-Reps are distributed by area and concentrate on particular home problems with concern or curiosity, together with threats to essential infrastructure.”
Gabbard stated that she has visited “a number of” of her Home DNI-Reps throughout the nation.
“Whereas visiting the FBI Area Workplace in Atlanta, I thanked the FBI brokers for his or her professionalism and nice work, and facilitated a quick telephone name for the President to thank the brokers personally for his or her work,” Gabbard stated. “He didn’t ask any questions, nor did he or I subject any directives.”
Gabbard careworn that the ODNI’s Workplace of Common Counsel “has discovered my actions to be constant and effectively inside my statutory authority because the Director of Nationwide Intelligence.”
Final week, FBI brokers have been seen finishing up a search at an election hub in Fulton County, Georgia, a location that grew to become floor zero for issues and complaints about voter fraud starting in 2020.
The search warrant licensed the seizure of election data, voting rolls and different information tied to the 2020 election, in accordance with a duplicate of the warrant reviewed by Fox Information.
Gabbard went on to handle particular questions initially posed by Warner and Himes, first, detailing how election safety “is a nationwide safety subject.”
“Interference in U.S. elections is a menace to our republic and a nationwide safety menace,” she writes. “The President and his Administration are dedicated to safeguarding the integrity of U.S. elections to make sure that neither overseas nor home powers undermine the American individuals’s proper to find out who our elected leaders are.”
Gabbard stated that President Trump “tasked ODNI with taking all applicable actions” beneath her statutory authorities in the direction of “guaranteeing the integrity of our elections and particularly directed by observance of the execution of the Fulton County search warrant.”
Gabbard once more famous that ODNI has been “actively reviewing intelligence reporting and assessments on election integrity” since she took workplace.
“As a part of the Nationwide Counterintelligence and Safety Middle’s duty to guide, handle, and coordinate counterintelligence issues associated to election safety, NCSC personnel traveled with me to Fulton County to help this effort,” Gabbard wrote. “They weren’t current through the execution of the warrant.”
Gabbard goes on to emphasize that the DNI has “broad authority to coordinate, combine, and analyze intelligence associated to election safety.” Gabbard additionally added that ODNI is “the lead intelligence company within the Joint Cyber Planning Workplace,” which coordinates and oversees the nation’s technique to safe essential cyber infrastructure, “together with cyber infrastructure used for elections.”
Gabbard additionally advised lawmakers that ODNI “won’t irresponsibly share incomplete intelligence assessments regarding overseas or different malign interference in U.S. elections.”
“As I publicly acknowledged on 10 April 2025, there may be info and intelligence reporting suggesting that digital voting methods being utilized in the USA have lengthy been susceptible to exploitation that might end in enabling decided actors to control the outcomes of the votes being solid with the intent of adjusting the result of an election,” she wrote.
“ODNI and the IC proceed to gather and assess all accessible intelligence regarding this menace to make sure the safety and integrity of our elections,” she stated.
In April 2025, Gabbard stated ODNI is investigating election integrity. She stated, on the time, that ODNI had “proof of how digital voting methods have been susceptible to hackers for a really very long time and susceptible to exploitation, to control the outcomes of the votes being solid.” Gabbard made the feedback throughout a Cupboard assembly, stressing to the president that the knowledge “additional drives ahead your m mandate to result in paper ballots throughout the nation in order that voters can place confidence in the integrity of our elections.”
In the meantime, within the letter, Gabbard defined that the method of assessing the intelligence “ensures that the IC’s completed intelligence merchandise are goal, impartial of political concerns, and primarily based on all accessible sources.”
“I’ll share our intelligence assessments with Congress as soon as they’re full,” she stated.
Gabbard stated that the Nationwide Safety Act of 1947 particularly highlights that the legislation does “not require that the president receive approval from the congressional intelligence committees earlier than initiating a major intelligence exercise.”
“Furthermore, the USA District Courtroom for the Northern District of Georgia issued the search warrant on the Workplace of the Clerk of The Courtroom of Fulton County beneath seal,” she writes. “As such, I’ve not seen the warrant or the proof of possible trigger that the DOJ submitted to Courtroom for approval.”
She added: “Subsequently, the ODNI had no potential, authority, or duty to tell the committees in regards to the search warrant forward of its execution.”
President Trump final week touted Gabbard on her work to guard elections within the U.S.
“She’s working very onerous on attempting to maintain the election protected. And he or she’s finished an excellent job,” Trump stated. “And so they, as you understand, they received into the votes, you bought a signed decide’s order in Georgia…And also you’re going to see some fascinating issues taking place. They’ve been attempting to get there for a very long time.”
In the meantime, the Justice Division sued Fulton County in December looking for entry to ballots associated to the 2020 lawsuit, although the FBI’s search seems unrelated.
Fulton County is combating the lawsuit and says the Justice Division has not made a sound argument for accessing the data.
