Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard escalated her campaign to relitigate the circumstances of Trump’s first impeachment this week, releasing a batch of newly declassified documents and sending criminal referrals to the Department of Justice targeting a former intelligence community whistleblower and ex-Inspector General Michael Atkinson.
The documents, released on Monday April 13, include investigative materials used by Atkinson during his 2019 preliminary review of the Ukraine whistleblower complaint. Also released were two transcripts from Atkinson’s closed-door congressional testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, which had been withheld from the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment proceedings.
Gabbard framed the release in sweeping language. “Deep state actors within the Intelligence Community concocted a false narrative that was used by Congress to usurp the will of the American people and impeach the duly-elected President of the United States,” she said in an official statement from her office.
She accused Atkinson of relying on second-hand information from the whistleblower and two witnesses she described as politically biased. One of those witnesses is described in the documents as a co-author of the 2017 intelligence community assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election, which Gabbard has previously described as fabricated.
Atkinson, a former career Justice Department lawyer who was fired by Trump in April 2020,...
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