Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revealed additional documents on Wednesday morning, asserting that these demonstrate the Obama administration’s direct role in what she refers to as the 2016 post-presidential election Russia narrative debacle.

Gabbard, labeling the incident as the “most outrageous misuse and politicization of intelligence in American history,” shared a number of claims which, according to her, have been disproven by the declassification of a 2020 House Intelligence Committee report.

The report evaluated the ways in which the Obama administration developed a January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment, suggesting Russian interference in the 2016 election to favor Donald Trump.

That assessment was “false,” Gabbard writes, noting that the Obama administration “conspired to subvert the will of the American people,” and, working in conjunction with a willfully ignorant media, staged “a years-long coup against” Trump.

🧵 New evidence has emerged of the most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history. Per President @realDonaldTrump‘s directive, I have declassified a @HouseIntel oversight majority staff report that exposes how the Obama Administration… pic.twitter.com/0sS4Df8yoI

— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) July 23, 2025