Shortly after news broke that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made criminal referrals to the Department of Justice for alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella and former Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Michael Atkinson related to the first Trump impeachment, Gabbard appeared on “Katie Pavlich Tonight” to discuss her findings and why she made this referral now.

“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.”

That impeachment occurred because people like Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who then chaired the House Intelligence Committee, weaponized the whistleblower process and lied and abused their power, Gabbard asserted, saying that documents and transcripts released this week back up her claim:

“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 chair of 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.”

She then laid out the “high points” of the hundreds of pages of transcripts and documents that have been released in conjunction with the House Intelligence Committee:

“The 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…and 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 so-called witness to this is somebody who also had zero firsthand knowledge and presented zero evidence, 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…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.

Atkinson bears a great deal of responsibility, according to Gabbard:

“Lastly, the Inspector General himself…he 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 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.”

Gabbard, who’s been tasked with with ridding the intelligence community of political influence and weaponization, ended by saying, “We know that the Deep State rot within the intelligence community has existed for a very long time, and it is very deep,” but promised that, “As we continue to discover new examples of these tried-and-true tactics that have been deployed, unfortunately, time and time again, we’re going to continue to expose that truth. If they try to use these tactics again, we are all watching, and we are all standing on guard.”

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