The FBI has opened an investigation into Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee for leaking classified information, and here’s the part that should make your coffee come out your nose — the criminal referral came from the NSA itself. The spy agency looked at the leak, looked at the senators, and picked up the phone.
You really can’t make this stuff up. The same committee that spent years lecturing us about the sacred duty of protecting national security secrets apparently had members treating classified intercepts like party favors.
According to Just the News, the NSA concluded that the leaked material “accurately contained information from one of its intercepts” related to two Hezbollah terrorist figures. The intercept was twisted to suggest that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard “had met with the ‘big guy’” — a reference to Hezbollah leadership. Gabbard adamantly denied meeting with Hezbollah leaders, and the NSA’s own findings backed her up. The leak wasn’t just unauthorized. It was weaponized.
The whole thing traces back to a New York Times article from January 28, 2025, which used the leaked intercept to kneecap Gabbard’s confirmation as DNI. Someone on that committee — or close enough to it — took classified NSA intelligence and handed it to reporters to torpedo a political opponent.
But here’s where it gets even better. The NSA made the criminal referral months ago, and it apparently languished inside the Justice Department until FBI Director Kash Patel became aware of it. Once Patel got wind of it, the investigation started moving. Funny how that works — you need someone who actually wants to enforce the law in charge of enforcing the law.
This isn’t even the first time the Senate Intelligence Committee has had a leak problem. Back in 2018, former committee security chief James Wolfe pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about leaking classified information to a reporter. That’s the committee’s own security director. The guy literally hired to stop leaks was the one doing the leaking.
And yet for the last 15 months, the Trump administration has been the one accused of being reckless with national security. Every cable news panel, every breathless editorial, every “democracy dies in darkness” headline — all aimed at Trump and his team. Meanwhile, sitting Democratic senators on the most sensitive intelligence committee in Congress were allegedly shopping classified NSA intercepts to the New York Times.
Let’s be clear about what happened here. A classified intelligence intercept was leaked. It was used to falsely smear a Cabinet nominee. The NSA itself determined the leak was real and the smear was false. And the FBI is now investigating Democratic members of the committee.
The same people who impeached a president over a phone call. The same people who screamed about “protecting classified information” every time someone in the Trump orbit looked sideways at a manila folder. Those people.
I’d say the irony is thick enough to cut with a knife, but at this point it’s more like a concrete wall. These are the guardians of our most sensitive secrets, and they couldn’t even keep their own committee’s intelligence off the front page of the Times when it suited their political goals.
The NSA doesn’t make criminal referrals because someone left a door open. They make them when the evidence is serious. And now the FBI is on the case. Somewhere, a Democratic senator is having a very bad week — and for once, they absolutely deserve it.
