Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks out after releasing newly declassified documents, alleging intelligence community coordination with Democrats during the 2019 Trump impeachment.
In a no-holds-barred interview with News Nation’s Katie Pavlich, DNI Gabbard just blew the lid off the 2019 Ukraine impeachment hoax, proving once and for all that the exact same treasonous tactics the Obama-Biden-Clinton cabal used in the Russia collusion scam were recycled to try and overthrow the will of the American people.
As The Gateway Pundit has been reporting for months, DNI Gabbard has been systematically dismantling the weaponized intelligence community, stripping security clearances from 37 Deep State operatives tied to the Russia hoax, and declassifying explosive documents proving Barack Obama himself led the coup against Trump before he even took office.
Tulsi Gabbard recently declassified a top-secret document related to Trump’s first impeachment that then-House Intel Chairman Adam Schiff locked away in a SCIF [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility] for years.
The House Intelligence Committee voted on Tuesday to release transcripts from 2019 hearings with the former Intelligence Community Inspector General, Michael Atkinson.
Then on Wednesday, Gabbard criminally referred Ukraine impeachment ‘whistleblower’ Eric Ciaramella and former intelligence community IG, Michael Atkinson, to the Justice Department.
Gabbard joined Katie Pavlich to reveal hundreds of pages of newly declassified transcripts and documents, released in coordination with House Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford, that prove the 2019 impeachment was nothing more than a manufactured partisan hit job orchestrated by Adam Schiff, House Democrats, and their Deep State allies in the intelligence community.
Katie Pavlich:
You released new documentation this week showing what happened in the lead-up to the impeachment of President Donald Trump in 2019. Can you tell us what you found, and why now to release and declassify this information to the public?
Tulsi Gabbard:
You know, first and foremost, it is always the right time to expose the truth to the American people about the deep state tactics that have been used time and time again—fundamentally to undermine the foundational principles of our republic, and, in so many cases, to undermine the decisions that the American people make when they cast their votes in our elections to decide who they want to lead our country.
And so, the documents that we released really pointed to the fact that the 2019 impeachment occurred because there were members of the intelligence community working directly with House Democrats—specifically Adam Schiff, who was on the House Intelligence Committee at the time—concocting this narrative, weaponizing the whistleblower process, lying, and abusing their power, all to create this manufactured basis that Nancy Pelosi then used to drive this impeachment against Donald Trump in 2019.
I’ll hit the high points on these documents. There are details and hundreds of pages of transcripts that we released in conjunction with House Intel Chairman Rick Crawford. But the bottom line is this: the whistleblower—so-called whistleblower—who came forward presented no evidence and no firsthand knowledge. This is a person who had heard about a conversation that President Trump had with Zelenskyy, then went straight to Adam Schiff on the House Intelligence Committee.
Tulsi Gabbard:
This is where they came up with this false narrative. And this so-called whistleblower then went and filed a complaint with the intelligence community inspector general.
The other witness—so-called witness to this—is somebody who also had zero firsthand knowledge and presented zero evidence. This was someone who was also a co-author of the 2017 Russia hoax intelligence community assessment that President Obama had ordered be created in conjunction with John Brennan and James Clapper at the time—again, no firsthand knowledge or evidence—and someone who said that even after reading the transcript, he didn’t really see the issue there until the whistleblower had explained it to him.
And lastly, the inspector general himself—and this is really such a violation of public trust and the responsibility that we expect all of our inspectors general to have—didn’t conduct a full investigation. He didn’t even ask to see the transcript of the phone call between President Trump and Zelenskyy. And he admitted to Congress that he didn’t have any firsthand knowledge; he did not have any evidence that he was relying on.
He had made a criminal referral to the Department of Justice based on this so-called whistleblower’s complaint. The Department of Justice came back and said, “There’s nothing here.” This inspector general then went to Congress anyway and presented it to them—all of this coming down to the bottom line, which is that this was a partisan, political attempt, once again, to undermine the will of the American people, who elected Donald Trump as president of the United States.
Katie Pavlich:
I want to get back to the Department of Justice in just a second, but you talked about the criminal—or the referral—and the lack of firsthand information. So, in the lead-up to the impeachment of President Trump, the standard was that it had to be firsthand information. And then, right before he happened to go through this impeachment process, the standard changed to being able to use secondhand information, even if it were unreliable and deemed unreliable by the inspector general. Why was that standard changed?
Tulsi Gabbard:
This is something that—again—there are further lies being told in the transcripts of this former Inspector General Atkinson when he went and testified before the House Intelligence Committee, where he was directly asked this question that you’re asking here now.
And he’s making claims, “Oh, well, the law required me to do it.” That’s complete nonsense. The law did not require him to do it. The responsibility is with the inspector general to deem whether or not a complaint is credible and whether or not it is urgent.
How do you find a complaint to be credible when there is zero evidence provided and there is zero firsthand knowledge provided—not only by the whistleblower, but by any witness in this case—and when the inspector general himself did not even request to see the documents that these individuals are referencing in their false accusations?
And so, it was obviously, to me, part of this plot to change the standard—which the inspector general did—from requiring that there be either evidence or firsthand knowledge presented in order to determine whether or not a complaint is credible, to merely allowing for hearsay and nothing else.
This fed into this manufactured narrative
Katie Pavlich:
Is it ever appropriate for politicians to be working with the intelligence community behind the scenes on an impeachment probe?
Tulsi Gabbard:
No. And this is why the fact that the so-called whistleblower, instead of going directly to the inspector general and filing a complaint, went directly to the House Intelligence Committee—and Adam Schiff specifically and his team—really points to the politicization of intelligence and the intelligence community.
And, again, the whistleblower process is really egregious here, because it is the channel for those to come and report complaints about things like politicized intelligence and the tactics of the deep state being deployed.
Katie Pavlich:
Well, and then let’s not forget that Adam Schiff repeatedly lied about having any contact ahead of time with this so-called whistleblower, after the standards were changed so that they could move forward with this in a political fashion, right ahead of an election year.
Regarding accountability, today your office sent criminal referrals to the Department of Justice related to your findings in this case. Can you talk to us about why you decided to do that, and which laws you believe were broken?
Tulsi Gabbard:
It’s important to push for accountability. The first step is exposing the truth to the American people. That is a huge step toward accountability, because the more we shine a light on the truth of these deep state tactics to undermine our republic and the will of the American people, the more likely it is that we have hope for change.
Accountability can come after the presentation of the truth—and, in this case, documents that had not been released publicly before. I’m leaving it up to the lawyers and the Department of Justice to take a look at this and determine the specific legal parameters. But it was important for us to refer this, along with all of the information that we have, so that the Department of Justice can do exactly that and investigate it.
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