作者：卡尼什卡·辛格
- 摘要
- 加巴德出席了乔治亚州富尔顿县的联邦调查局搜查行动
- 特朗普曾虚假声称自己赢得2020年大选
- 加巴德称她促成了特朗普向特工表示感谢的通话
- 民主党人曾质疑加巴德出席联邦调查局搜查行动的动机
华盛顿，2月2日（路透社） – 美国国家情报总监图尔西·加巴德周一表示，应总统唐纳德·特朗普的要求，她出席了上周联邦调查局对乔治亚州一个选举设施的搜查行动，且她的出席是在其职权范围内的。
加巴德在周一致国会议员的一封信中写道，她目睹了联邦调查局人员在富尔顿县执行搜查令，并在那里“停留了一小段时间”。
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参议院和众议院情报委员会的资深民主党人要求加巴德向其小组委员会说明她出席搜查行动的原因，并对她的在场表示关切。
加巴德还表示，在访问亚特兰大联邦调查局外地办事处期间，她“促成了特朗普与特工的一次简短通话”，以感谢特工们在调查工作中的付出，这一行为违背了执法规范。
她在信中补充说，特朗普没有提出任何问题，她和特朗普也没有发布任何指示。
联邦调查局周三搜查了富尔顿县选举中心和运营中心，以调查特朗普关于其2020年选举失利是大规模投票舞弊结果的虚假指控。
2020年总统选举中的舞弊指控已被法院、州政府以及特朗普自己前政府的成员驳回。
加巴德的信是写给民主党参议员马克·华纳和众议员吉姆·希姆斯的。华纳的办公室表示，加巴德的信“提出的问题多于解答的问题”。
作为美国最高情报官员，被纳入国内执法行动是不寻常的，因为国家情报总监办公室（ODNI）的职责是海外间谍活动和保护国家安全。
加巴德在信中写道：“我的出席是应总统的要求，并且是在我根据广泛的法定权力开展的工作范围内，该权力包括协调、整合和分析与选举安全相关的情报，包括反间谍、外国和其他恶意影响以及网络安全。”
专家对加巴德的出席提出了法律质疑。
2009年至2017年担任国家情报总监办公室最高法律顾问的罗伯特·利特上周告诉路透社：“国家情报总监的权力由法律规定，其中并不包括调查过去选举中的潜在舞弊行为。”
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Tulsi Gabbard says Trump requested her presence at FBI raid in Fulton County | Reuters
By Kanishka Singh
- Summary
- Gabbard was present at FBI raid in Georgia’s Fulton County
- Trump has falsely claimed he won 2020 election
- Gabbard says she facilitated a call for Trump to thank agents
- Democrats had questioned Gabbard’s presence at FBI raid
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) – U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on Monday she was present at last week’s FBI raid on an election facility in Georgia at the request of President Donald Trump and that her attendance was within her authority.
Gabbard wrote in a letter to lawmakers dated Monday that she observed FBI personnel executing a search warrant in Fulton County and was present there for a “brief period of time.”
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Top Democrats on the Senate and House of Representatives intelligence committees had called for Gabbard to brief their panels on why she was present at the raid and raised concerns about her presence.
Gabbard also said that while visiting the FBI field office in Atlanta, she “facilitated a brief phone call” for Trump to thank FBI agents for their work on the probe, a departure from law enforcement norms.
She added in the letter that Trump did not ask any questions and that she and Trump did not issue any directives.
The FBI searched Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center on Wednesday, pursuing Trump’s false claims that his 2020 election defeat was the result of widespread voting fraud.
Claims of voting fraud in the 2020 presidential election have been rejected by courts, state governments and members of Trump’s own former administration.
Gabbard’s letter was addressed to Democratic U.S. Senator Mark Warner and Representative Jim Himes. Warner’s office said Gabbard’s letter “raises more questions than it answers.”
It is unusual for America’s top intelligence official to be included in a domestic law enforcement operation as the remit of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is overseas spying and protecting national security.
“My presence was requested by the President and executed under my broad statutory authority to coordinate, integrate, and analyze intelligence related to election security, including counter-intelligence, foreign and other malign influence and cybersecurity,” Gabbard wrote.
Experts had raised legal questions over Gabbard’s presence.
“The DNI has authorities set out by statute and they don’t include investigating past elections for potential fraud,” Robert Litt, who served as the top ODNI lawyer from 2009 to 2017, told Reuters last week.
Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan
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