When Secretary of State Marco Rubio was a U.S. senator, he was like a hero to one diplomat who was struck with Havana Syndrome while serving the U.S. in China back in 2018.

The New York Post spoke with Mark Lenzi, who has become one of the most prominent victims, saying that he was targeted when he blew the whistle on those who continue to suffer the effects.

He said that he faced “negative rumors about his management,” which led to being ostracized at work and made his health problem worse.

“As senator, Marco Rubio was a crucial lawmaker for me and my three family members to receive vital HAVANA Act designation status,” Lenzi said in an interview. “My family regarded him as nothing short of heroic for us.”

Indeed, Rubio announced in 2023 that he refused to believe a CIA report that claimed Havana Syndrome was not the result of a foreign adversary, United Press International (UPI) reported.

But now that Rubio is running the State Department and serving as the acting national security advisor, he's gone quiet.

“As Secretary of State, he has been Missing In Action on this issue when I have needed him most and has stood by and done nothing while Deep State bureaucrats have retaliated against me for testifying to Congress about State Department efforts to cover up evidence,” Lenzi continued.

Havana Syndrome has impacted several U.S. government employees who worked at embassies in Cuba, Russia, Austria, Germany, Colombia, Georgia, Vietnam and even within the United States, the Government Accountability Office reported. The first case of it popped up in Cuba, which is how it got its name.

It often manifests as a loud noise that causes immense pain in the head and ears. The aftermath has left some embassy employees with memory loss, hearing loss, dizziness, debilitating headaches and more. While preliminary studies have found no MRI-detectable brain damage or biological abnormalities, the long-term impacts remain under study, the National Institutes of Health said in its findings.

The Helping American Victims Afflicted by Neurological Attacks (HAVANA) Act, passed in 2021, allocated financial aid to those who were plagued by the problem to ensure they were cared for, particularly in the case of those who were no longer able to work.

Greg Edgreen, a former defense official, went public on “60 Minutes” about one of his own staffers who was plagued by a mysterious brain problem.

“I can tell you at an early stage I started looking at Moscow,” he said. “I believe that we’ve lost our way in the [intelligence community] in terms of how we put out assessments."

Lenzi agrees, telling The Post that he thinks the Russians are using microwave technology to target Americans.

News broke earlier this year that the Pentagon has been testing a device that some believe could be behind Havana Syndrome, CNN confirmed.

Lenzi has already settled one lawsuit against the State Department alleging he was the victim of retaliation.

In June, however, the State Department removed his email and office access, court documents say. Lenzi's lawyers allege that the move “curtailed his ability to access information in pursuit of this lawsuit.”

In 2023, Rubio said in a statement about the CIA findings, "I am concerned that the Intelligence Community effectively concluded that U.S. personnel, who reported Anomalous Health Incidents symptoms, were simply experiencing symptoms caused by environmental factors, illness or preexisting conditions and is potently rushing to conclusions when substantial questions remain."

A former Pentagon official has turned whistleblower, shredding the Trump administration's "shameful" lack of regard for civilian casualties during the ongoing war in Iran, during an interview with journalist Christiane Amanpour.

Wes J. Bryant previously worked with the Department of Defense's office for civilian harm assessment, which was formed to help mitigate non-combatant casualties in military operations. Last year, however, the office was dissolved under the direction of President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. As the war in Iran has unfolded, critics have highlighted disturbing rhetoric and conduct indicating the administration's lack of care for civilian lives and the laws of war, including the destruction of a girls' school by a U.S. strike and Hegseth's insistence that enemy combatants will be given "no quarter."

Speaking with Amanpour, Bryant said that his colleagues have tracked over 80 potential instances of strikes against civilian targets by the U.S. and Israel, putting casualty estimates around 1,800.

"I find this shameful, frankly," Bryant said. "Shameful that our administration, our secretary of defense — or 'war,' as he calls himself — and our senior military leadership, can't even to this day acknowledge that they struck the school, let alone provide some kind of half-semblance of an apology and address the situation appropriately. For our own secretary of defense and commanders to not even be able to tell the American people where they've dropped their own bombs and missiles, that's a problem in and of itself."

He continued: "And then we have the problem of just the sheer recklessness and bloodthirst of this campaign, and we're joining with Israel, who has been committing genocide in Gaza.... The horrifying aspect of this is that we're importing to the U.S. military, importing the standards that Israel has created with the war in Gaza, of utter recklessness in targeting, blatant disregard for international law and an incredibly high tolerance for civilian casualties, and brushing them off. Saying things like, 'civilian casualties will happen in war, the enemy embeds in urban areas and no other military takes as much care to prevent civilian casualties.'"

Bryant attested to the fact that the U.S. military had, over the years, taken care with military strikes to prevent civilian casualties, but also stressed that many mistakes had been made. This, he argued, was why his prior office for harm assessment was established under the Biden administration. He explained that the office was ultimately slashed under Hegseth's leadership because it did not fit his vision of military "lethality."

A whistleblower came forward through the proper channels about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard; however, lawmakers will never hear from that whistleblower because Gabbard has blocked it.

The Wall Street Journal said in a bombshell report that an email sent to Democratic congressional staffers on Feb. 13 said that it would not give the unredacted intelligence sought by lawmakers “due to the assertion of executive privilege to portions” of the intelligence itself.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the top-ranking members on the respective intelligence committees, asked who asserted the privilege in a letter that was sent to Gabbard on Tuesday.

"The intelligence at issue was assembled in a report by the National Security Agency early last year and relates to a conversation two foreign nationals had about Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner," the report said, citing a previous story.

The White House said the claims were false.

“Executive privilege” typically refers to the power of the executive, meaning the president, to have confidential conversations that are private and inaccessible from Congress or the judiciary. Using it to limit intelligence would be unusual, current and former intelligence officials told the Journal.

“Executive privilege is rarely used as a reason to not give information to the Gang of Eight,” former general counsel to the National Security Agency, Glenn Gerstell, said, talking about the top four members of each party chosen for the small group.

He added that he wasn't aware of the issues detailed in the whistleblower report, but that it is hard to justify using executive privilege when the conversations don't involve anyone in the White House.

“The request and provision of intelligence reports have been longstanding practice between the [intelligence community] and its congressional oversight committees,” Warner and Himes said in their letter.

The whistleblower alleged that Gabbard restricted intelligence within the administration for political purposes.

The information also includes intelligence on Iran and is derived from a sensitive surveillance method. Gabbard's office shared the complaint with some lawmakers but redacted a lot of it.

A whistleblower is claiming that FBI Director Kash Patel’s frequent use of one of the agency’s two jets has led to the delay of a high-profile murder probe.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Tuesday revealed he had received new whistleblower disclosures related to his investigations into Patel’s use of FBI aircraft for personal travel, and he said they showed Patel’s decisions regarding the use of FBI planes had delayed investigations not only into the murder of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk but also the November 2025 mass shooting at Brown University.

In the case of Kirk, Durbin said that the FBI shooting reconstruction team’s deployment to Utah “was delayed by at least a day because of a bureau plane and pilot shortage caused by the director’s personal flights.”

Durbin said that he also received information showing how Patel bungled the aftermath of the Brown shooting by putting the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) on standby to respond to the incident.

“The director’s decision caused immediate confusion,” Durbin said, “because that order was not communicated to HRT; it upended the responsibility typically assigned to the local field office closest to the incident in question—in this case Boston or New York City—to provide immediate support; and it froze the aircraft’s usage by any other FBI team until the director removed the hold.”

Durbin then said that the whistleblower described how his team “had to drive from Quantico, Virginia to Providence, Rhode Island overnight during a winter storm to reach the scene by 9:00 am the following morning to immediately process evidence.”

Durbin noted he received this information shortly after Patel was seen chugging down a beer in the locker room of the gold medal-winning US men’s Olympic hockey team on Sunday, after the director once again used an FBI plane to fly to Milan, Italy.

The Democratic senator said that Patel’s trip to Italy could have seriously hampered the FBI’s ability to investigate what may have been an assassination attempt on President Donald Trump.

“It also cannot be ignored that the director’s latest personal jaunt occurred on the same weekend an armed intruder attempted to breach President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence,” Durbin explained. “The man was allegedly carrying a gas can and a shotgun, and he was killed on the scene by law enforcement.”

Durbin concluded by saying that “the FBI cannot afford to have its resources further stretched by a director who views its staff and aircraft as a means to support his jet-setting lifestyle.”

MS NOW reported that an FBI spokesperson has “disputed” the whistleblower’s claims that Patel’s decisions had caused delays to investigations, but added that they need to “check into the matter more deeply to gather information.”

A whistleblower is dead, and it is making heads turn to look at top tech bros.

Sam Altman, the new pal of President Donald Trump, is facing a campaign from the mother of former employee Suchir Balaji, who was found dead in his San Francisco apartment after his New York Times interview on OpenAI using copyrighted data.

RadarOnline.com reported an exclusive piece, Balaji's mother, Poornima Ramararo, suggested the evidence they have shows a different story.

She characterized her son as a "happy-go-lucky engineer."

Renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Ronald Graeser saw two major indicators that flagged the likelihood of foul play. First, there were massive levels of GHB in his system. GHB is known as the date-rape drug because it significantly incapacitates the individual. Incapacitated people don't generally shoot themselves. They're incapacitated. Still, the medical examiner brushed it off as "self-induced."

There's one main forensic inconsistency: the blood-splatter pattern is an angle consistent with a shooter standing over the victim. The family also pointed out other concerns about minor injuries that weren't included in the medical examiner's conclusions.

"I don't think it's a suicide – and that leaves deliberate homicide or murder," Graeser said.

Then there's the scene itself. The wires to his security camera were cut. There was blood in two rooms, a random wig left in the room, and Balaji ordered DoorDash before allegedly committing suicide, which seems inconsistent with those who are distraught.

Meanwhile, Altman told Tucker Carlson, "It looks like a suicide to me."

Carlson disagreed, "No, he was definitely murdered."

Altman foe Elon Musk told Joe Rogan, "All signs point to it being a murder."

According to Musk, Altman stole trade secrets from his own AI company xAI and he thinks Altman was involved in Malaji's death, the report said.

Malaji's mother agrees, saying her son was marked for death by a "team of assassins" after he blew the whistle on Altman's business.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is facing a highly classified whistleblower report, and there is concern about how to safely share it with lawmakers.

The Wall Street Journal reported Monday morning that the sensitive report is "said to be locked in a safe." President Donald Trump's administration has avoided telling lawmakers about it, claiming that it involves such secret information.

The information could cause “grave damage to national security" if it becomes public, an official claimed. The information reportedly includes "claims of executive privilege that may involve the White House."

This is an administration, however, that has claimed "national security" liberally, such as the rationale for taking over Greenland and the immigration crackdown.

“If everything can be a national emergency or a threat to national security or a matter of foreign policy, then essentially all constitutional powers are ceded to the president,” said Shirin Sinnar, a law professor at Stanford Law School in an Aug. 2025 report by Paul Blumenthal. “And that can’t be intended by the constitutional design.”

Gabbard's office claims the allegations are “baseless and politically motivated.”

However, the whistleblower's lawyer, Andrew Bakaj, said he was never aware that the inspector general's office had made any determination about the complaint's credibility. However, the inspector general's office decided that some of the allegations weren't credible while others might be.

Bakaj sent a letter to Gabbard that was also sent to the House and Senate in November, which the Journal has viewed.

"Months later, lawmakers still haven’t received the complaint itself. Some Democratic staffers on the intelligence committees have tried to learn more about the complaint in recent weeks, with little success," congressional aides told the reporters.

The month before the complaint, Republicans approved a new inspector general for the intelligence community on a 51 to 47 vote.

The new IG is Christopher Fox, who worked for Gabbard before the new job overseeing her work.

Read the full report here.

Social media pounced the Trump administration’s proposal to force all employees to sign non-disclosure agreements to prevent leaks to media organizations.

The new requirement proposed by President Donald Trump in a Tuesdy draft notice, states that “federal employees do not have discretion to disclose Confidential Government Information,” and that unauthorized disclosure of such information disrupts agency operations and “erodes public trust.”

The agreement, if successful, would make “written permission from an authorized agency official” a requirement before an employee could speak about information the Trump administration declares confidential — regardless of the seriousness or the alleged harm the government action is doing.

The NDA is designed to bring financial pain to the whistleblower by demanding financial restitution, and it even applies to employees after they leave federal service.

Social media critics whaled on the proposal, with the Freedom of the Press Foundation calling it “not just absurd, it’s unnecessary and dangerously secretive.”

“This policy would kneecap whistleblower protections, undermine the First Amendment, and wrongly inhibit the public’s right to know,” the association added on Bluesky.

Washington D.C. attorney Bradley Moss also blasted the proposal on Bluesky: “Federal employees operate under an array of statutory, regulatory and policy restrictions on the unauthorized disclosure of unclassified information. The only reason to add this NDA would be to undercut lawful … disclosures to the media that SCOTUS approved.”

Former U.S. diplomat William Gill pointed out on X that “This obviously begs the question, what are they trying to hide now? Federal employees are barred from unauthorized disclosures of classified information but they’re also covered by whistleblower protections regarding waste, fraud and abuse. That’s the likely area being targeted.”

Other critics took a more biting turn, with one heckler complaining on Bluesky that “Fed workers are not the ones needing to be gagged.”

Another blasted “absolutely breathtaking authoritarian s—— from this admin and that’s saying something.”