Insiders say Tulsi Gabbard running secretive vote probe without FBI: 'Doing her own thing'

President Donald Trump signed off on his spy chief Tulsi Gabbard running an investigation into his long-debunked 2020 election fraud claims that's running parallel to an official FBI probe, according to a report.

The director of national intelligence joined an FBI raid last week on an election hub in Fulton County, Georgia, and looped in the president on a call with the agents at the scene. Three administration officials told The Guardian that Gabbard is conducting another investigation that's separate from the Department of Justice's criminal probe.

“She’s doing her own thing,” one of the officials said.

Gabbard's review was authorized on the basis that her office is assessing election integrity and possible foreign interference, and she has been briefing Trump and senior White House advisers every few weeks, the report said.

The president sent her to Georgia himself on Jan. 28 to observe FBI agents execute a search warrant.

That search was led by FBI deputy co-director Andrew Bailey, who was also sent there by Trump, and the search warrant indicated that agents were looking for evidence that election records were not properly preserved or that false ballots or voter registrations had been procured.

The office of the director of national intelligence review was first led by the Director’s Initiatives Group, or DIG, which Gabbard had set up within her agency to examine possible vulnerabilities with voting machines used in the 2020 election, a source familiar with the matter told The Guardian.

However, that group was disbanded late last year after it falsely identified a suspect in the Jan. 6 pipe bombs placed at the Democratic and Republican party headquarters in Washington, D.C., that source said.

Gabbard continued that probe herself, but it's not clear exactly what her office is looking for, and officials said ODNI isn't expected to get direct access to evidence from the criminal investigation.