An aide to Tulsi Gabbard linked an innocent ex-cop to the Jan. 6 pipe bomber in a secret memo that got leaked—leading MAGA devotees to smear the woman.

The smear blindsided the FBI, who were forced to investigate the woman, then clear her because a video of her playing with puppies proved her alibi. The innocent woman was a Capitol Police officer who fought off MAGA rioters on Jan. 6.

The bizarre saga cast new light on Gabbard’s tenure as Donald Trump’s director of National Intelligence and how her hand-picked aides operate.

The memo was written by Paul McNamara, a shadowy Army veteran tasked by Gabbard with running her “director’s initiatives group.” The unit, known as DIG, is dedicated to a series of MAGA talking points, including targeting the so-called “weaponization” of intelligen

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