Tulsi Gabbard Was Inches Away From Exposing the Spy Program That Nearly Stopped Trump
The FBI secretly searched your phone calls, texts, and emails 278,000 times without a warrant – and when Congress made it illegal, they built a new tool to keep doing it.
Tulsi Gabbard had the classified court opinion proving it and was three weeks from forcing it public.
Then, she abruptly resigned and it’s no secret this wasn’t an ordinary resignation.
The FBI Built the Backdoor on Biden's Watch and He Did Nothing
Here is what your government did while Biden was telling you democracy was under threat.
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act lets the NSA collect communications from foreign targets overseas.
Every American those targets talk to gets swept up automatically – no warrant, no judge, no probable cause.
The law says the FBI can only search that data under strict rules.
Between 2020 and 2022, FBI agents ran 278,000 searches that violated those rules.
They searched Black Lives Matter protesters.
They searched January 6 participants.
They searched congressional campaign donors.
They searched a sitting U.S. senator.
The FISA Court – which almost never rules against the government – called the violations "persistent and widespread."
Congress passed the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act in April 2024 specifically to stop it.
Biden signed it, called it reform, and moved on.
Eight months later, the Justice Department discovered the FBI had quietly built a filtering tool that let agents run the same illegal searches without triggering any of RISAA's new requirements – no approvals, no audit trail, no accountability.
It took months for DOJ to shut it down.
Then the FBI built another one.
The Classified Opinion That Expires When Gabbard Does
A March 2026 FISA Court opinion – still classified – documents what happened next.
The FBI is reportedly running a second filtering workaround, this time apparently with DOJ's blessing.
The NSA and CIA are running similar tools.
Tom Cotton and Ron Wyden sent a joint letter to Gabbard demanding declassification before the June 12 reauthorization deadline.
Gabbard's office confirmed the review was underway and committed to moving faster than the 180-day statutory window.
That commitment died Friday when Gabbard submitted her resignation, citing her husband's bone cancer diagnosis.
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Her last day is June 30.
Section 702 expires June 12.
Whoever Trump names as acting DNI inherits the declassification process with no public commitment, no deadline pressure, and no institutional reason to rush a document that simultaneously embarrasses the FBI, NSA, and CIA.
Chuck Schumer and the Democrats who spent four years defending the surveillance apparatus Biden expanded will not be demanding faster transparency.
The Deep State Has One Move and It Always Works
The intelligence community does not fight oversight.
It outlasts it.
Congress passed Church Committee reforms in 1975 after the FBI was caught spying on Martin Luther King Jr. and blackmailing civil rights leaders.
The FBI routed around those reforms within a decade.
Congress passed RISAA in 2024 after 278,000 illegal searches.
The FBI had a new backdoor running before the year was out.
The FBI built its first illegal workaround and ran it for months while Biden was president – and he never answered for it.
Trump told Congress to renew Section 702 clean – no reforms – which is exactly what the FBI wants.
The one official on record pushing to expose the court opinion documenting the latest violations just cleared her desk.
The classified proof that the FBI never stopped is sitting in a leaderless review process, three weeks before the vote that decides whether Congress ever sees it.
Your phone calls are in that database – and the people responsible just ran out the clock again.
Sources:
- Breitbart News, "Director Tulsi Gabbard Working to Declassify Controversial FISA Court Opinion," Breitbart, May 21, 2026.
- Fox News Digital, "Exclusive: Tulsi Gabbard Resigns from Trump Cabinet," Fox News, May 22, 2026.
- One America News Network, "Tulsi Gabbard Resigns as DNI for Trump Admin," OAN, May 22, 2026.
- Nextgov/FCW, "House Passes 45-Day FISA Extension After Senators Secure Declassification Deal," Nextgov, May 2026.
- FBI.gov, "Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and Section 702," Federal Bureau of Investigation.
