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美国国家情报局局长图尔西·加巴德站在一辆装载着箱子的车辆内通话，该车辆位于富尔顿县选举中心外。
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美国国家情报局局长图尔西·加巴德采取了非同寻常的举措，介入了对2020年选举的联邦调查，以寻找难以捉摸的选民舞弊证据。
加巴德周三出现在现场，当时联邦调查局特工对亚特兰大附近的富尔顿县选举办公室执行了搜查令。知情人士告诉CNN，此次搜查与司法部试图获取投票数据并调查该县涉嫌舞弊的努力有关。
这一行动似乎为加巴德提供了一个机会，通过支持唐纳德·特朗普总统关于2020年选举被“窃取”的虚假但坚持不懈的说法，来讨好他。
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周四晚上，当被CNN问及为何出现在搜查现场时，特朗普称赞加巴德“非常努力地试图确保选举安全”。“你们会看到一些有趣的事情发生，”特朗普说，“他们很长时间以来一直试图到达那里。”
有迹象表明加巴德已失宠于总统，CNN此前报道，去年特朗普认为她在中东政策上“偏离了官方立场”，因此她被排除在至少一次高级官员关于伊朗的关键讨论之外。
州负责选举，而非联邦政府。国家情报局局长负责监督所有外国情报收集。其在美国选举中的传统角色是保护选举免受外国干涉。
聚焦富尔顿县
一位与佐治亚州选举官员关系密切的消息人士告诉CNN，佐治亚州选举官员强烈怀疑加巴德正在寻找联邦调查局在富尔顿县查获的记录与2020年选举外国干涉之间的联系。消息人士称，佐治亚州官员正准备应对加巴德可能试图重新提起关于中国干涉2020年选举的可疑说法。
如果特朗普政府对富尔顿县的调查存在外国联系，官员们尚未透露。佐治亚州是特朗普总统试图推翻2020年选举结果的核心。
“我们通过情报和公开报道知道，电子投票系统过去和现在都容易受到利用，”国家情报局发言人在一份声明中表示。“特朗普总统关于确保我们选举安全的指示很明确，国家情报局局长加巴德将继续在其权限范围内采取行动，与我们的跨机构伙伴一道，支持确保选举的完整性。”
当CNN问及富尔顿县调查有何外国联系时，发言人未予回应。
“联邦法律明确规定，国家情报局局长及其办公室负有领导与选举安全相关的反间谍事务的法定责任，包括评估对选举投票系统、软件、选民登记数据库等的风险，并分析外国干涉，”国家情报局局长办公室的一位官员表示。
加巴德原定于周五下午向美国州务卿协会（NASS）发表讲话，但最终因“日程冲突”未能出席会议，NASS发言人表示。一位白宫官员本周表示，司法部长帕姆·邦迪和国土安全部部长克里斯蒂·诺姆也计划出席此次会议，但最终均未露面。
周五一整天，两党选举官员都期待特朗普政府有人能解释政府在富尔顿县的行动，但最终没有得到任何解释。
NASS会议通常是一场严肃的活动，选举官员在会上讨论最佳实践并了解对选举的合法外国威胁。
民主党人困惑且愤怒
民主党选举官员对加巴德访问富尔顿县的反应是愤怒和困惑交织。
“图尔西·加巴德在什么情况下会有任何角色来处理我们的问题？”科罗拉多州务卿吉娜·格里斯沃尔德告诉CNN，“我认为答案可能是她在佐治亚州的原因。她可能会宣扬一些选举否认主义的阴谋论废话。”
另一位民主党人、康涅狄格州务卿斯蒂芬妮·托马斯周四告诉CNN，她原计划抵制加巴德的出现（如果会议仍有安排的话）。托马斯表示，她“感到愤怒”，因为特朗普内阁成员中那些有质疑2020年选举合法性或攻击选举管理人员历史的人竟然被邀请参加会议。
怀俄明州务卿查克·格雷在被问及对富尔顿县调查的看法时，称赞特朗普政府在选举方面的工作。“我将与国家情报局局长讨论此事，我很期待听到他们的调查结果，”共和党人格雷周五告诉记者。
选举专家表示，加巴德前往富尔顿县可能对任何刑事辩护都有帮助。
“加巴德局长的出现，如果她没有合法权限出现在富尔顿县，会引发对这种所谓证据收集的严重质疑，”非营利组织选举创新与研究中心（Center for Election Innovation and Research）执行董事大卫·贝克尔表示，该中心与两党选举官员合作。
“如果刑事指控最终被提出（我认为这种可能性几乎为零），我预计任何辩护律师都会重点强调她的在场和干涉行为，”贝克尔告诉CNN。
情报委员会高级民主党参议员马克·华纳抨击了加巴德在富尔顿县的存在。
华纳表示，加巴德要么“认为存在合法的外国情报联系——在这种情况下，她显然违反了法律规定的义务，即向情报委员会‘充分且及时地’通报相关国家安全问题”。
华纳的声明继续称，另一种可能性是加巴德“再次证明了她完全不适合担任她所担任的职务，将她本应领导的无党派情报界卷入一场旨在为破坏我们民主的阴谋论正名的国内政治噱头”。
“加巴德在富尔顿县的存在‘不应受到质疑’，因为选举完整性是‘她工作的重要部分’，”司法部副部长托德·布兰奇在周五的新闻发布会上被问及加巴德在富尔顿县的存在时断言。
“本届政府的所有行动都是协调一致的，”布兰奇说。
CNN的马歇尔·科恩提供报道。
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Tulsi Gabbard inserts herself into 2020 election fraud probe
PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2026, 5:00 AM ET | CNN Politics
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United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks on the phone while standing inside a vehicle loaded with boxes outside the Fulton County Election Hub.
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has taken the extraordinary step of inserting herself into a federal probe of the 2020 election as she hunts for elusive evidence of voter fraud.
Gabbard was on the scene Wednesday after FBI agents executed a search warrant for the Fulton County elections office, near Atlanta. The search was related to an effort by the Justice Department to seize voting data and search for alleged fraud in the county, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
The move appears to provide an opportunity for Gabbard to curry favor with President Donald Trump by supporting his false but unrelenting claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
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Trump on Thursday night praised Gabbard for “working very hard to try to keep the election safe” when asked by CNN why she was present during the search. “You’ll see some interesting things happening,” Trump said. “They’ve been trying to get there for a long time.”
There have been suggestions Gabbard had fallen out of favor with the president, and CNN previously reported that she was left out of at least one key discussion among senior officials over Iran last year as Trump saw her as “off-message” on Middle East policy.
States run elections, not the federal government. The director of national intelligence oversees all foreign intelligence collection. Their traditional role in US elections is to protect them from foreign interference.
Focus on Fulton County
The strong suspicion among Georgia election officials, a source close to those officials told CNN, is that Gabbard is searching for a connection between the records the FBI seized in Fulton County and foreign interference in the 2020 election. Georgia officials are bracing for the possibility that Gabbard will try to resurrect dubious claims about Chinese interference in the 2020 election, the source said.
If there is a foreign nexus to the Trump administration’s probe of Fulton County, officials haven’t revealed it. Georgia was the centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
“We know through intelligence and public reporting that electronic voting systems have been and are vulnerable to exploitation,” a DNI spokesperson said in a statement. “President Trump’s directive to secure our elections was clear, and DNI Gabbard has and will continue to take actions within her authorities, alongside our interagency partners, to support ensuring the integrity of our elections.”
The spokesperson did not respond when CNN asked what foreign nexus there was to the Fulton County probe.
“Federal law clearly assigns the DNI and her office with the statutory responsibility to lead counterintelligence matters related to election security, which includes assessing risks to election voting systems, software, voter registration databases and more … and analyzing foreign interference,” an official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said.
Gabbard was slated to speak to the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) on Friday afternoon but ultimately did not attend the conference “due to scheduling conflicts,” a NASS spokesperson said. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem were also set to appear at the conference, a White House official said this week. But none ultimately showed.
Anticipation had built throughout the day Friday among election officials of both parties that someone from the Trump administration would explain what the administration was doing in Fulton County. No explanation came.
The NASS conference is normally a staid affair where election officials discuss best practices and hear about legitimate foreign threats to elections.
Democrats are perplexed and angry
Democratic election officials reacted with a mix of rage and bewilderment to Gabbard’s Fulton County visit.
“In what world would Tulsi Gabbard have any role in addressing us?” Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold told CNN. “And I think the answer is probably why she’s in Georgia. It’s probably some election denialism conspiracy BS that she’s going to spout.”
Connecticut Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas, another Democrat, told CNN on Thursday that she planned to boycott Gabbard’s appearance when it was still on the books. Thomas said she was “angry” that Trump cabinet members who had a history of questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 election or attacking election administrators were even invited to the conference.
Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray praised the Trump administration’s work on elections when asked for comment about the Fulton County probe. “I’m going to talk with the DNI about that, and I’m excited to hear their findings,” Gray, a Republican, told reporters on Friday.
Election experts said Gabbard’s trip to Fulton County could be a boon for any criminal defense.
“Director Gabbard’s presence, without any legal authority to be [in Fulton County], raises serious questions about this collection of alleged evidence,” said David Becker, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Election Innovation and Research, which works with election officials of both parties.
“If criminal charges are ever brought, and I think there’s nearly zero chance of that, I’d expect any defense counsel to make a significant issue of her presence and interference,” Becker told CNN.
Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the intelligence committee, slammed Gabard’s presence in Fulton County.
Either Gabbard “believes there was a legitimate foreign intelligence nexus – in which case she is in clear violation of her obligation under the law to keep the intelligence committees ‘fully and currently informed’ of relevant national security concerns,” Warner said.
The other possibility, Warner’s statement continued, is Gabbard “is once again demonstrating her utter lack of fitness for the office that she holds by injecting the nonpartisan intelligence community she is supposed to be leading into a domestic political stunt designed to legitimize conspiracy theories that undermine our democracy.”
Gabbard’s presence in Fulton County “shouldn’t be questioned” because election integrity is “a big part of her job,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche asserted at a press conference Friday when asked about Gabbard’s presence in Fulton County.
“This administration coordinates everything we do as a group,” Blanche said.
CNN’s Marshall Cohen contributed reporting.
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