Donald Trump Impeachment and Intelligence Oversight

Tulsi Gabbard, in her capacity as Director of National Intelligence, this week published a set of files related to the 2019 whistleblower complaint that helped trigger the first impeachment of President Donald Trump, and accused what she called a “deep state” plot to influence or manufacture allegations against the administration. The release — framed by Gabbard as an attempt to expose irregularities in how the whistleblower complaint and related intelligence were handled — has reignited partisan arguments over the origins and credibility of the material that fed into Congress’s impeachment inquiry.