WASHINGTON — Rep. Anna Paulina Luna pushed back Thursday against claims that she had accused the CIA of raiding the office of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, calling the narrative false and suggesting it was being orchestrated by critics.
In a post on X, Luna said large accounts were falsely stating that she claimed a raid had occurred.
“This is completely false. There is no clip or statement that exists,” she wrote. “Why is there an orchestrated push for this narrative? Not one account can post a clip of me saying that cause it never happened.”
Luna included the video from her appearance on NewsNation in which she discussed a whistleblower’s claims and documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the CIA’s MKUltra program. In the interview, she described the CIA taking boxes of documents from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
“Yeah so we were actually just notified that the CIA went in and took documents out of ODNI. Multiple boxes pertaining to the JFK files as well as MKUltra,” Luna said. She noted an executive order from President Donald Trump directing full declassification of the files.
“The reason why this is troubling is A) there was an executive order that the president had directed the full declassification of JFK, but then also to the MKUltra files,” she continued. “CIA famously has said that all documents were released and other documents had been destroyed. So these are allegedly those documents that apparently never existed and so very troubling.”
Luna said she had spoken with House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and that her office was sending a document preservation request to the CIA. She also mentioned contacting the White House and the CIA director.
In the X post, Luna emphasized that Congress has a responsibility to follow up when notified of conflicting narratives from agencies.
“When Congress is notified of conflicting narratives from different agencies, i.e., the CIA and ODNI, it is our job to follow through to ensure documents are preserved and not destroyed,” she wrote. “This is not an issue with Ratcliffe or Gabbard. For people to act like the CIA doesn’t have a history of destroying documents is BIZARO-WORLD.”
The controversy erupted after Luna’s initial comments sparked headlines and social media claims of a “raid,” including segments on other networks that used the term. Critics accused her of overstating events or creating unnecessary drama while Trump was abroad in China. Supporters defended her focus on document preservation.
So, I guess what she's saying is, she never said there was a raid. She said they "took" documents.
That's a fine point, isn't it.
AND THEN THERE'S THIS FROM FOX NEWS:
A spokesperson for the Director of National Intelligence disputed the report that the CIA raided the office of the director of national intelligence. Olivia Coleman, press secretary for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, responded to a now-deleted post, saying, "This is false - the CIA did not raid the DNI’s office."
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