BREAKING: President Trump has fired Michael Atkinson, the intelligence watchdog who first raised concerns about the whistleblower complaint, which led to the impeachment inquiry.
Atkinson received a complaint in August 2019 about allegedly improper commitments made by President Trump to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The complaint was later released by the House intelligence committee, leading the White House to release an account of the call in which Trump asked Ukraine's president to investigate the family of former Vice President Joe Biden. The events led to a historic, contentious impeachment inquiry.on two articles of impeachment in February.
House Intelligence Chair Rep. Adam Schiff, who led the charge to impeach President Trump, said the president's decision"is yet another blatant attempt by the President to gut the independence of the Intelligence Community and retaliate against those who dare to expose presidential wrongdoing." "At a time when our country is dealing with a national emergency and needs people in the Intelligence Community to speak truth to power, the President's dead of night decision puts our country and national security at even greater risk," Schiff continued.
Sen. Mark Warner, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said it is"unconscionable that the President is once again attempting to undermine the integrity of the intelligence community by firing yet another an intelligence official simply for doing his job."
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