Additional details have now been released about the highly classified whistleblower complaint last year against the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard; with an exclusive from The Guardian alleging that the complaint was filed after the National Security Agency (NSA), in Spring of 2025, detected evidence of an unusual phone call between an individual associated with foreign intelligence and a person close to President Donald J. Trump.

The call, which was deemed to be highly sensitive and has caused turmoil in Washington over the past week, was brought to the attention of Tulsi Gabbard, serving as the Director of National Intelligence, but rather than allowing the NSA to distribute the information further, she took a paper copy of the intelligence directly to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. According to the complaint, Gabbard then told the NSA not to publish the intelligence report, instead instructing officials to transmit the highly classified details directly to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

On April 17, a whistleblower contacted the Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community alleging that Gabbard had blocked highly classified intelligence from routine dispatch, according to Attorney Andrew Bakaj, who has been briefed on details surrounding the highly sensitive phone call flagged by the NSA. The whistleblower then filed a formal complaint about Gabbard’s actions on May 21.

Acting Inspector General Tamara A. Johnson dismissed the complaint at the end of a 14-day review period, writing in a letter addressed to the whistleblower dated June 6 that “the Inspector General could not determine if the allegations appear credible,” stating that whistleblower could take their concerns to Congress, but only after receiving guidance from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Members of the “Gang of Eight”, a group of Senate and House leaders privy to classified information from the Executive, received a heavily redacted version for review on Tuesday. They have disagreed about the legality of Gabbard’s conduct, as well as the credibility of the whistleblower complaint, and have since contacted the NSA to request the underlying intelligence that the whistleblower says was blocked by Gabbard.

President Donald J. Trump will host an inaugural meeting for the Board of Peace on February 19 at 10:00am in Washington, in order to push the twenty-seven members of the board, which he chairs, towards the implementation of the second phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal and raise money for reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet Trump at the White House on February 18, the day before the meeting, despite Israel having not yet officially joined the Board of Peace.

W95302, an Airbus A321 operated by Wizz Air on a direct flight between London an Tel-Aviv, was denied landing earlier today at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel after reports of “suspicious behavior” onboard the aircraft, with it remaining in a holding pattern for several minutes off the coast as fighter jets with the Israeli Air Force were scrambled to escort the plane into Tel-Aviv.

Sources tell N12 that during the flight someone changed a WiFi account name to “terrorist” and began sending threatening messages to other passengers, causing concerns of a possible attack in Israel. Israeli Police were waiting on the tarmac once the plane landed, screening all passenger and luggage with dogs due to concerns of possible explosives or a security-related incident. Suspicions of a security incident have since been lifted, according to the Israel Airports Authority.

Unusual movements today and yesterday by the U.S. Air Force, with a train of at least dozen C-17A Globemaster IIIs arriving at or enroute to locations in Armenia and Azerbaijan, five just today, almost all coming from Ramstein Air Base, Germany though most originated from Dulles International Airport in Washington. In my opinion, these aircraft don’t appear to be carrying air-defense system or other equipment related to Iran, and instead suggest preparations for a possible unannounced visit to the region by President Trump. Vice-President JD Vance is visiting both countries later this week, though this appears to be a lot of aircraft for just the Vice-President, unless they are deploying separate motorcades and security teams to Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Sounds like these movements are all related to this week’s trip to Armenia and Azerbaijan by Vice-President JD Vance. Lots of airlift capability for just one person, though that person does happen to be the Vice President of the United States.

Video footage shows an F-16AM Fighting Falcon with the Ukrainian Air Force use its M61A1 Vulcan Rotary Cannon to shoot down a Russian Shahed-136 Attack Drone somewhere over Ukraine.

The Trump Administration has told Iran that it expects the Iranian delegation, led by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, to arrive at their meeting next week “with meaningful substance and concessions,” after Tehran ruled out a total halt to its uranium enrichment during Friday’s talks in Oman, two people familiar with the matter told The Jerusalem Post.

Video reposted earlier today on TikTok by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describing potential strikes by the U.S. Navy against Iran, involving the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and her Carrier Strike Group currently deployed to the Arabian Sea.

Oppositions channels in Venezuela are reporting that Juan Pablo Guanipa, the Leader of the Justice First Party who was released by authorities earlier today after being held as a political prisoner since May 2025, was kidnapped at gunpoint tonight in the Los Chorros Neighborhood of the Venezuelan capital of Caracas.

Engineers at NASA have successfully repaired a hydrogen leak on the Tail Service Mast Umbilical (TSMU) of Artemis II’s Space Launch System (SLS) which was detected during a wet dress rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center on February 3, allowing Artemis II to advance toward its next critical fueling test and a targeted launch window for the United States’ first lunar mission in over five decades of early March 2026.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said during an interview Saturday with Al Jazeera that Tehran would attack U.S. military bases across the Middle East if President Trump orders strikes against Iran, with him stating, “In my view this is very clear. If the U.S. attacks us, it is evident that we don’t have the ability and access to attack U.S. territory, and therefore have to attack or retaliate to U.S. bases in the region. And unfortunately, U.S. bases are spread all over the region.”

The U.S. Department of Defense announced this morning that forces under the United States Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) carried out a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding on the Panamanian-flagged crude oil tanker M/T AQUILA II in the Indian Ocean overnight without incident, after tracking the vessel - which was operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels linked to Venezuela - from the Caribbean Sea.

Participating in the operation were MH-60S “Seahawk” Multi-Mission Helicopters with the “Golden Falcons” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 12 (HSC-12), attached to Carrier Air Wing Five (CVW-5) and usually onboard the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76).

Airmen with the U.S. Air Force’s 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing (332 AEW), currently forward deployed to Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, pictured saluting during the National Anthem in the lead up to last night’s Super Bowl LX, while standing in front of several F-15E Strike Eagles assigned to the 391st Fighter Squadron (391th FS) based out of Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance arrived in the Armenian capital of Yerevan this morning aboard Air Force Two, in the first visit ever by a sitting President or Vice President of the United States to Armenia.

Both Iran and Oman were notified in advance of White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s visit to the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) in the Arabian Sea on Saturday, at the invitation of Adm. Brad Cooper, the Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), sources tell N12 and CNN.

Mona Juul, Norway’s former ambassador to Jordan who resigned on Sunday after it was revealed she had significant financial links to convicted sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and her husband Terje Rød-Larse, were charged Monday with gross corruption as well as aiding and abetting by the Norwegian economic crimes unit, Økokrim, citing their inclusion in the Epstein Files.

Channels affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) posted a video earlier today, clearly created using Artificial Intelligence (AI), which appears to show a attack using drones, gunboats, missiles, and submarines on the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and her Carrier Strike Group in the Arabian Sea.

Six F-35A Lightning lls with “The Green Mountain Boys” of the Vermont Air National Guard’s 158th Fighter Wing arrived earlier tonight at RAF Lakenheath in England from the United States, supported by three KC-135 “Stratotanker” Aerial-Refueling Tankers, GOLD81/82/83, who themselves landed at RAF Mildenhall.

The F-35s that arrived tonight in the U.K. join six other F-35s with the 158th that arrived in Europe last week from Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Puerto Rico, all of which participated in last month’s operation against Venezuela and are now forward deployed to Naval Station Rota in Spain.

All twelve of the F-35As are likely bound for their ultimate destination of Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, in order to relieve twelve F-15E Strike Eagles assigned to the 391st Fighter Squadron based out of Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, that have been deployed to the region since early 2025.

U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) has published footage of and announced, that at the direction of Gen. Francis L. Donovan, the Commander of SOUTHCOM, military forces under Joint Task Force-Southern Spear (JTF-SS) carried out a strike today, February 9, against an alleged narco-trafficking vessel operating in the Eastern Pacific. According to SOUTHCOM, intelligence indicated that the vessel was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route and carrying illicit narcotics, with two suspected narco-terrorists killed in the strike while one survived, all believed to have been members of a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO). Following the strike, search-and-rescue assets were launched by the U.S. Coast Guard.