{"id":695144,"date":"2026-04-13T13:12:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=695144"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:53:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:53:47","slug":"buried-for-7-years-declassified-transcripts-blow-up-trump-impeachment-story-the-details-are-laid-out-verbatim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=695144","title":{"rendered":"Buried For 7 Years: Declassified Transcripts Blow Up Trump Impeachment Story&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..The details are laid out verbatim&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>In a long-awaited release that sent ripples through Washington on Monday, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has declassified closed-door 2019 transcripts from briefings with then-Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) Michael Atkinson. The documents, withheld from the public for over seven years, reveal critical details about the anonymous \u201cwhistleblower\u201d whose complaint about President Trump&#8217;s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky triggered Trump&#8217;s first impeachment &#8211;<em> details that directly contradict the narrative of a neutral, non-partisan civil servant acting in good faith.<\/em><\/h4>\n<h3>What the Transcripts Reveal<\/h3>\n<p>According to the newly public records:<\/p>\n<ul dir=\"auto\">\n<li>The whistleblower was a\u00a0<strong>registered Democrat<\/strong>\u00a0who disclosed having a\u00a0<strong>\u201cprior professional relationship with one of the Democratic Presidential candidates\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0for the 2020 election (widely understood in context to reference then-former Vice President Joe Biden, given the whistleblower\u2019s known Ukraine policy background).<\/li>\n<li>Despite this, ICIG Atkinson told Congress in a 2019 briefing:\u00a0<strong>\u201cI did not find the complainant (whistleblower) was biased.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0He relied almost exclusively on the whistleblower\u2019s own self-disclosure.<\/li>\n<li>The whistleblower had\u00a0<strong>met with staff from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI)<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>&#8211; then chaired by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<em>before<\/em>\u00a0filing the official complaint with the ICIG on August 12, 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Timeline: Trump\u2019s July 25, 2019, phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy occurred just 18 days before the complaint was filed. During that window, the whistleblower had undisclosed contacts with Schiff\u2019s committee.<\/li>\n<li>On the official \u201curgent concern\u201d disclosure form, the whistleblower\u00a0<strong>did not check the box<\/strong>\u00a0acknowledging contact with congressional intelligence committees. When pressed by then-Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX, now CIA Director), Atkinson confirmed:\u00a0<strong>\u201cThe whistleblower did not disclose to you that he or she had contact with HPSCI?\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Atkinson replied:\u00a0<strong>\u201cThe answer to that is yes. The answer to that is yes.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>These details are laid out verbatim<\/strong>\u00a0in the declassified pages Herridge posted, complete with highlighted exchanges from the October 2019 closed-door session.<\/p>\n<p>In short,\u00a0<strong>we now have official, on-the-record confirmation of long-standing Republican concerns that the impeachment process was politicized from the outset.<\/strong>\u00a0They show an ICIG who accepted the whistleblower\u2019s self-assessment of impartiality at face value, even after learning of partisan ties and unreported congressional contacts &#8211; facts that were blacked out or minimized in earlier public handling of the case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/buried-7-years-declassified-transcripts-blow-trump-impeachment-story\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/buried-7-years-declassified-transcripts-blow-trump-impeachment-story<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>AND<\/h3>\n<h4>President Trump just scored TOTAL VINDICATION: Newly declassified docs from Tulsi Gabbard prove the 2019 impeachment was faked by a DEMOCRAT who knew it was fake &#8220;In so many different ways, the election was rigged, the 2020 election was rigged. We&#8217;ve found that out. What you just said is just a piece of that. It&#8217;s a big piece, but minor, relatively speaking compared to what they did. They cheated on the election.&#8221; &#8220;They cheated on the vote. And they cheated in every way possible.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricLDaugh\/status\/2043735135967748587\">https:\/\/x.com\/EricLDaugh\/status\/2043735135967748587<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a long-awaited release that sent ripples through Washington on Monday, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has declassified closed-door 2019 transcripts from briefings with then-Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) Michael Atkinson. The documents, withheld from the public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=695144\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695169,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695144\/revisions\/695169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}