Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Friday night that she will refer a newly declassified 2016 memo to the Department of Justice for potential criminal prosecution, calling it a bombshell revelation in the Russian collusion narrative.
The memo reveals, for the first time, that U.S. intelligence officials had concluded Russia did not play a significant role in Donald Trump’s 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton. This finding directly contradicts earlier testimony from top Obama-era officials, including then-CIA Director John Brennan and FBI Director James Comey, who claimed they had seen evidence justifying the launch of the investigation.
Gabbard told Hannity (see video below):
It lays out, these over 100 documents that you’re referencing, that I declassified and released, spells out in great detail exactly what happens when you have some of the most powerful people in our country directly leading at the helm, President Obama and his senior-most national security cabinet, James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, and Susan Rice and others, essentially making a very intentional decision to create this manufactured, politicized piece of intelligence with the objective of subverting the will of the American people.
The intelligence chief suggested that the Obama Administration was attempting to subvert the results of the 2016 election by undermining Trump’s presidency with a baseless investigation. “The years-long Mueller investigation that cost taxpayers almost $40 million to congressional impeachments, endless smears and attacks against not only President Trump, but his family. He had senior members of his team who were investigated, some arrested and jailed,” she said.
“I am referring all of these documents that we have found and uncovered, referring them to the Department of Justice for further investigation. Accountability and action; not just investigation, but action. Accountability has to take place,” she said. “The American people’s ability to have faith and trust in the integrity of our democratic republic is literally what’s at stake and therefore the future of our ability to exist as the country that we know it. This accountability is critical to make sure that this never happens again.”