Overview

• Gabbard released declassified PDB and internal emails that show a December 8, 2016 assessment found no evidence that Russian cyber operations altered vote counts but was pulled from publication
• She alleges Obama administration officials ordered a new assessment under President Obama’s direction to contradict pre-election intelligence and build a Russia-collusion narrative
• Gabbard formally referred all documents to the Department of Justice and demanded criminal investigations into those she accuses of a treasonous conspiracy
• Democratic lawmakers including Jim Himes and Mark Warner disputed her claims and cited bipartisan Senate and Mueller investigations that found no evidence of vote manipulation or politically driven intelligence
• The declassification has revived partisan debate over intelligence politicization and the origins of the Trump-Russia probe