| As of April 2026, investigations into the 2019 Trump-Ukraine impeachment have shifted to reviewing alleged procedural failures and "deep state" involvement, driven by new disclosures from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. |
Washington DC, Apr. 24 (DPnet).– CIA Director John Ratcliffe revealed last week newly declassified evidence about the credibility and political bias of the chief accuser. The documentation revealed proved the impeachment proceedings were deeply flawed.
"As Director Ratcliffe made clear as a member of President Trump's impeachment advisory team in 2019, this impeachment was entirely baseless, unfounded, and brought in politically-motivated bad faith," CIA Director of Public of Affairs Liz Lyons said in a recent statement.
"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," the Office of the Director of National Intelligence wrote in the referral to the Justice Department. "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.
Recent actions include criminal referrals regarding the whistleblower and assertions that the original investigation was based on "manufactured" evidence. Memos declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revealed the U.S. intelligence watchdog developed derogatory evidence about the CIA analyst, including that he submitted false information in his whistleblower complaint and only offered hearsay to support his allegations.
“I do not have direct knowledge of private comments or communications by the President,” the alleged whistleblower, who claimed Trump improperly tried to pressure Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate Hunter Biden, admitted in his initial August 2019 intake form. The documents Gabbard released include transcripts from Inspector General Michael Atkinson’s closed-door testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which were withheld from the House Judiciary Committee during the first impeachment trial.
That stunning line on the limitations of the whistleblower's knowledge was not included in the nine-page letter then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), released in late summer 2019 that touched off a months-long political maelstrom and led to Trump's impeachment by a Democrat-led House and his eventual acquittal in the Senate. Republicans, at the time, complained that the whistleblower made contact with the staff of Adam Schiff in advance – though Schiff downplayed the nature of that contact. Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson and the original whistleblower are subjects of criminal referrals, alleging a coordinated effort to frame the 2019 proceedings.
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