Correction: Misinformation via Fox News claimed the DNI office was raided this week and that JFK and MKUltra documents were taken during the raid. They were not. Rep. Paulina Luna provided the information, but it appears Jesse Watters might have misinterpreted it or had another inaccurate source.
Last year, the CIA raided Tulsi Gabbard’s office and seized files on the JFK assassination and MKUltra, which the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was about to declassify. The president ordered these files to be released.
The story Jesse Watters aired was incorrect!
Katie Pavlich on News Nation:
- The documents were not taken today, and it was not a raid on DNI Gabbard’s office
- People from the CIA took documents (related to the JFK assassination/MKUltra) from the National Reconnaissance Office *last year* in the middle of the night during the government shutdown and have not returned/is withholding them from ODNI
- Because the CIA is withholding these documents, they cannot be declassified and scanned for public release
- “The CIA doesn’t think they answer to anyone.”
- “I doubt [CIA Director] Ratcliffe knew about it.”
UPDATE on this and more on @KatiePavlichNN at 10 pm et on NewsNation. I just spoke to an Intelligence official who told me the following:
-The documents were not taken today and it was not a raid on DNI Gabbard’s office
-People from the CIA took documents (related to the JFK… https://t.co/PF4jcBx6fc pic.twitter.com/wEIouQosIm
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) May 14, 2026
Jesse Watters has deleted his post accusing the CIA of raiding DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s office.
Gabbard’s team denied those claims immediately after the post started going viral yesterday.
The original post received over 2.6 million views.
The Original Incorrect Story
A CIA whistleblower testified to the Senate Homeland Security committee on Wednesday that the agency “took back 40 boxes of JFK and MKUltra files” and “illegally monitored the computer and phone usage” of Gabbard’s investigators looking into an alleged cover-up of the origins of Covid-19.
They took them in the middle of the night during the government shutdown and have not returned them. They are withholding them from the Director of National Intelligence.
Rep. Paulina Luna said Congress requested those files, and the CIA has 24 hours to return the 40 boxes they took during the raid.
What is up with John Ratcliffe, the CIA director?
The CIA has 24 hours to return the documents to Tulsi Gabbard’s office or else I will make a motion to issue a subpoena. These documents have been requested by Congress. @DNIGabbard @CIADirector https://t.co/Y5lMw8AYK5
— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) May 13, 2026