Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard this month declassified material that she claimed proved a “treasonous conspiracy” by the Obama administration in 2016 to politicize U.S. intelligence in service of casting doubt on the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s election victory.

No previous U.S. spy chief has made such an allegation against a chief executive. Democrats dismissed it as "a weak attempt at distraction" from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

Gabbard made public more than 100 pages of records Friday that show efforts by Obama officials to whip up an alternative assessment about the “boldest yet” Russian influence campaign