In July 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump posted an artificial intelligence-generated video of former President Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Office.

Tulsi Gabbard has alleged that Obama's administration manufactured intelligence about Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Political controversy erupted on Friday, July 18, when Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a declassified report accusing former President Barack Obama and key figures in his administration of orchestrating a “treasonous conspiracy” to undermine Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential victory.

Throughout the fall of 2016, intelligence assessments found that Russia “did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome” (and lacked the capacity to do that).

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard (DNI) was baffled by how prior special counsels run by Robert Mueller and John Durham didn't highlight evidence of what she alleged was a "yearslong coup against President Trump.

James Clapper, a former Director of National Intelligence under the Obama administration, was informed by the nonprofit dog-training group that his name had been taken off the list one day before the

The US Senate is considering giving up crucial authority over key intelligence officials responsible for assuring major agencies comply with legal restrictions and the Constitution.The top legal officials at the Central Intelligence Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence would no longer need Senate confirmation under the latest version of a broad policy bill approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The Democratic lawmaker is stressing the controversies over Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard at the same time that her standing with President Donald Trump has appeared precarious.