The Office of the Director of National Intelligence sent criminal referrals to the Justice Department following the document drop revealing a whistleblower helped to launch the impeachment plot against President Trump.
“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,” ODNI’s general counsel wrote in the referral to the DOJ and reported by Fox News. “The possible criminal activity concerns the circumstances described in the following congressional briefings: Discussion with Intelligence Community Inspector General, House Permanent Select Comm. on Intel., 116th Cong. (2019); Briefing by the Intelligence Community Inspector General, House Permanent Select Comm. on Intel., 116th Cong. (2019),” it continued.
According to the new information, former IC Inspector General Michael Atkinson relied upon “upon politicized, manufactured narratives – only conducting interviews with four individuals: the Whistleblower, the Whistleblower’s friend who was a co-author of the January 2017 Russia Hoax Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) and close colleague of disgraced former FBI Agent Peter Strzok, and two character references who had zero firsthand knowledge of the July 2019 phone call,” the ODNI explained.
The documents expose the whistleblower as having claimed, “I do not have direct knowledge of private comments or communications by the President.” The documents also note that a witness said they had to “read between the lines” of what was being said. Atkinson also admitted that he had not “done an investigation to determine whether they actually, in fact, took place…that all of the alleged actions actually took place.”
