When This
Plandemic/Scamdemic
Is Over…POTUS will fill Football Stadiums
Can You Say MAGA Rally
I Can't wait!
Atkinson became Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (ICIG) in May 2018.[6] He was nominated to the position in November 2017 by President Donald Trump[12] and was confirmed by the United States Senate by voice vote on May 14, 2018.[13] At his confirmation hearings, Atkinson indicated that he would bring order to the troubled ICIG's office, which had a reputation for dysfunction, and pledged to revive a whistleblower program that had become virtually defunct under the previous Acting Inspector General,[14] saying that he would "encourage, operate, and enforce a program for authorized disclosures by whistleblowers within the intelligence community that validates moral courage without compromising national security and without retaliation."[9] Restoring the whistleblower program was a major priority among members of the Senate Intelligence Committee.[14]
In August 2019, Atkinson, as inspector general, received a formal complaint from a whistleblower within the U.S. Intelligence Community who stated that they had learned, in the course of normal duties, that Trump had abused his power "to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election," specifically by pressuring a foreign government (Ukraine) to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.[15][16] The whistleblower, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer detailed to the White House,[17] submitted the report to Atkinson under the provisions of the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA).[18]