Posted on 04/14/2026 6:13:30 PM PDT by MtnClimber
In 2019, during the peak hysteria of the Ukraine whistleblower impeachment hoax, I exclusively reported for The Federalist that the Intelligence Community Inspector General secretly gutted internal whistleblower rules requiring firsthand evidence of wrongdoing.
I had the whistleblower forms, the revisions, and the dates for all of it, and I conclusively proved all of it.
All hell broke loose after I published my report, with Deep State assets and their media lickspittles accusing me of lying, of fabrication, and of botching the facts.
I was 100% right, and they all knew it. How do we know this? Because the IG himself admitted under oath in testimony for Congress. And his staff, despite the fact of his testimony, lied about it for years, knowing that the proof of their conspiracy would be hidden within his classified testimony.
For nearly 7 years I waited for the transcript of that testimony to be released. Today, that finally happened, and that testimony fully vindicates my original reporting and full discredits everyone who falsely claimed it was inaccurate—including the staff of the IG who deliberately peddled lies about what they did, and how I caught them red-handed.
Here’s what he secretly admitted under oath: “When it came to my attention from one of the media inquiries that we had a form that required individuals to have firsthand information before they could file a complaint, I did two things.”
“I said, first of all, is that what our form says? And then the second thing once they told me, yeah, that’s what our form says, we need to change that,” Atkinson testified.
“So the timing is unfortunate. It looks suspicious, I get that,” he said. “What I should have done was I should have explained when we changed the form why we were changing it.”
“I should have been more transparent about the reasons and the motivations for the change in the forms,” he said.
The IC IG gutted its own internal rules, eliminated its longstanding requirement of first-hand whistleblower knowledge, did so because of the anti-Trump complaint, fraudulently backdated its changes, and did it all in secret, EXACTLY as I reported in 2019. And the admission by the IG himself that my reporting was accurately was HIDDEN from public view until today.
Thankfully I kept the receipts of every fraudulent, throne-sniffing Deep State crony and publication which cast aspersions on my credibility and that of my reporting. Stay tuned on that front…
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And the deep state are still there.
So even the inspector general is co-opted by the Deep State. Do we need an inspector general to monitor the inspector general? And what happens when that inspector general is co-opted? Of course, we all know that Congress can’t be trusted with oversight. The Dems are actively looking for ways for the Deep State to do their bidding and most of the Republicans look at the intelligence community and FBI with the same stary-eyes and dazed smile that a 1960s teen girl had for the Beetles. I know it will never happen, but the only solution is to gut these organizations.
Name the IG instead of just saying the acronym. He is Michael Atkinson , no longer IG.
Gonna be a lot of great payouts from the lawsuits.
We get to pay for it coming and going. What will anyone do about it?
How’s that? Who is going to sure and what are their damages? Assuming those rather large hurdles are crossed, any judgments will be paid out of the treasury, so I’m not as enthusiastic as you about the prospect
We need public hangings.
Lots of them.
And we need them soon.
L
They are still there and advising Trump on the war. Be very careful.
Deliberately changing a Federal form to specifically fit a certain situation with the intent to charge a sitting President with a crime. The bastard should be hung, drawn and quartered.
The Deep State crooks BANK ON the lies going around the world twice before the truth can get its shoes tied. They bury all the evidence while they knowingly slander those who know the truth.
It is the overwhelming pattern of our Deep State, and it stinks to high Heaven.
Glad he’s finally vindicated. Praying a lot more who have been slandered by crooks get vindicated soon as well.
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