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MAJOR WSJ REPORTING: A whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard is so sensitive it’s reportedly locked in a safe, with officials warning disclosure could cause “grave damage to national security.”

Filed last May. Still not delivered to Congress.

When a democracy can’t even figure out how to inform lawmakers, the problem isn’t secrecy, it’s accountability.

If you were wondering whether FBI agents are willing to break the law if told to by the president, the answer is is the same as it was for whether soldiers and generals would follow illegal orders: on the whole, with exceptions, yes.
These are practice runs. Like the firebombing of the boats in the Caribbean, they are meant to habituate everyone — the officers, the media, Congress, the public — to the idea that the president can not only break the law himself (we know that, thanks to the Supreme Court), but order others to do so, and no consequences will follow. Nobody quits, nobody gets investigated, nobody goes to jail. Not even if they kill someone.