‘We will investigate these troubling disclosures fully and leave no stone unturned to deliver justice,’ Attorney General Pam Bondi said.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on July 23 announced that it was forming a task force following the declassification of documents by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) that shed light on the origins of false claims that then-candidate Donald Trump won the 2016 election with Russia’s help.
In a statement, the DOJ said that the task force would “assess the evidence publicized by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and investigate potential next legal steps which might stem from DNI Gabbard’s disclosures.”
“This Department takes alleged weaponization of the intelligence community with the utmost seriousness,” the statement reads.
Earlier on July 23, Gabbard told reporters during a White House briefing that there is “irrefutable evidence” that President Barack Obama authorized the publication of a false narrative about Russian collusion in the 2016 election.
“There is irrefutable evidence that details how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false,” Gabbard said.
“They knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true. It wasn’t.”
Also on Wednesday the DNI released a declassified House Intelligence Committee report which found that three reports made public by the CIA after the 2016 election were below agency standards, containing information that was potentially biased, implausible, unclear, or of uncertain origin.
“This is not about Democrats or Republicans. This has to do with the integrity of our democratic republic and American voters having faith that the votes cast will count,” Gabbard, a former Democrat, said.
Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement that “We will investigate these troubling disclosures fully and leave no stone unturned to deliver justice.”
By Joseph Lord
