A senior U.S. intelligence official-turned-whistleblower said Obama-era superiors pressured him to endorse flawed conclusions in a high-profile intelligence report on Russian election interference and that he was later cut out of key discussions after raising concerns about the Steele dossier’s role in shaping that assessment,

Report from National Intelligence Council Whistleblower Claims Pressure to Manipulate Findings on Russia and 2016 Election Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard has declassified a 19-page report containing whistleblower testimony that alleges the Obama administration and the intelligence community (IC) engaged in a "bad-faith