Tulsi Gabbard’s office has sent criminal referrals to the Department of Justice for the whistleblower whose complaint led to President Donald Trump’s 2019 impeachment.
The whistleblower’s complaint, which was deemed credible by then-Inspector General Michael Atkinson, alleged that the president abused his power by attempting to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 election.
The whistleblower claimed that Trump, in a July 2019 phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, tried to pressure the Ukrainian leader to investigate then-former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
The House of Representatives would eventually impeach Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in December 2019. He denied all accusations, and was acquitted by the Senate in 2020.
In the referral to the Justice Department, the general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence wrote, “I want to refer information that may constitute possible criminal activity in violation of federal criminal law committed by one or more former employees of the intelligence community.” CBS News reports that in addition to the whistleblower, the referral asks the DOJ to investigate a former intelligence community watchdog.
The referral was reviewed and reported on by Fox News. The ODNI confirmed to the Daily Beast that a criminal referral relating to “one or more...
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