Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has claimed to have uncovered a “treasonous conspiracy” in the Obama administration to stoke Russian election interference claims. Gabbard alleged the Obama administration knew that Russia did not affect the outcome of the 2016 election,

According to a release from current CIA Director John Ratcliffe, career intelligence officials say Brennan deliberately kept parts of the investigation secret from other agencies and aggressively pushed to include the now-debunked Steele dossier—a document that falsely claimed connections between Trump and Russian agents.