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Sep 9, 2025 Tulsi Gabbard directed the NSA to recall and purge an accurate classified report about Venezuela Tier 1 · Primary Information, Memory and Manipulation
Ordering suppression of a report agency staff affirmed was accurate raises concerns about politicization of intelligence and destruction of records.
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- DNI Gabbard directs NSA to recall classified Venezuela report — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard directed the NSA to recall a classified report about Venezuela despite agency staff affirming it was accurate and complied with all NSA policies. The report related to Trump special envoy Richard Grenell and included conversations Grenell had with Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, as well as NSA-collected information about Grenell. An unclassified addendum directed staff to remove the original report from all manual and computer files.
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Week 34 – 2025-09-06–2025-09-12
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