Russiagate whistleblower largely ignored by intel community

 Just the News:

The same intelligence community watchdog who aggressively pursued a dubious complaint that triggered the Ukraine impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump repeatedly ignored a whistleblower’s evidence of the intelligence community's abuse of authority in the Russiagate scandal for years, according to newly declassified memos, obtained by Just the News.

In fact, the Intelligence Community Inspector General’s office even told the Russiagate whistleblower it believed there may be merit to his claims but couldn’t figure out how to alert federal prosecutors to his evidence of possible criminality, the memos show.

“At that 2022 meeting, the IC IG staff stated to me –for the first time - that the IC IG lacked a mechanism or authority to convey potentially relevant whistleblower information, regarding potential criminal activity, to the Department of Justice (DOJ) Special Counsel,” reads a memo summarizing the whistleblower’s years-long quest to bring the alleged wrongdoing to attention.

The whistleblower’s efforts finally got attention this summer when DNI Tulsi Gabbard personally reviewed his concerns and made a criminal referral to the Justice Department.
Evidence that Obama-era agencies abused their authority to nail Trump but ignored it

Previously, the whistleblower's concerns fell on deaf ears, despite the fact that he held one of the most senior positions on the National Intelligence Council, as a deputy national cybersecurity officer, and had direct knowledge of wrongdoing that occurred during the Obama administration’s flawed intelligence community assessment (ICA). That assessment — that claimed Russia tried to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election — has now been widely challenged if not outright debunked.

The Russiagate whistleblower whose name remains redacted from the evidence that Gabbard recently made public, provided evidence that the Obama-era US spy agencies wrongly used the discredited Steele Dossier to justify its conclusions and violated multiple rules for conducting intelligence assessments.

His journey stands in stark contrast to the way the same ICIG handled a whistleblower complaint in 2019 alleging that Donald Trump tried to coerce Ukraine’s president to investigate the Biden family’s activities in that country by tying it to aid. There, the watchdog pursued the allegations aggressively and deemed second-hand reporting credible even when it found that the whistleblower in that matter had indicators of “arguable political bias” against the president.  

Former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, who saw the Ukraine whistleblower complaint, which is still sealed, has long called it a “fake whistleblower complaint.”

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I think the Hillary Clinton campaign made up the Russian collusion hoax in a desperate attempt to stop the election of Trump.  I am pretty sure they knew there was no merit to their assertion.  Trump was clearly not working with the Russians, and his time in office has not suggested he was in Putin's pocket.

Tulsi Gabbard has exposed the Obama-era attempt to flasely accuse Trump.

I don't think Russia was trying to get Trump elected.  In fact, I don't think Putin cared.