Gabbard's Claim of "Foreign" Interference in Georgia Election Takes a Hit

https://www.spytalk.co/p/gabbards-claim-of-foreign-interference

When Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard showed up last month for the FBI’s seizure of election ballots cast in Fulton County, Ga., she justified her unusual presence with some extraordinary claims.

The bureau’s investigation into ballots cast during the 2020 presidential election in Georgia was “a national security issue,” she wrote in a letter to members of Congress. As the U.S. government’s top intelligence official, Gabbard asserted she had “robust authority” to oversee matters involving “foreign intelligence and counterintelligence threats.”

Her message was clear: Gabbard and the FBI had finally come across evidence that a foreign power had somehow tinkered with the 2020 election count, flipping votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden, and thereby backing up the president’s repeatedly debunked claim that the election was stolen.

But today, under directions from a federal judge, the FBI unsealed two affidavits that laid out why agents were looking at the Fulton County ballots and what they hoped to prove. And contrary to Gabbard’s letter, there was not a word about any foreign meddling with the Fulton County 2020 ballots. Nor was there any mention of “malign” influence by China, Venezuela, Iran, Russia— or any other foreign power that might have explained why the country’s top intelligence official would involve herself in a domestic law enforcement operation.

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