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雅各布·罗森 司法部记者
杰克·罗森是负责报道美国司法部的记者。此前他曾担任竞选数字记者，报道特朗普总统2024年竞选活动，还曾担任《与玛格丽特·布伦南一同面对全国》节目的助理制片人。
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雅各布·罗森、奥利维亚·加齐斯
奥利维亚·加齐斯
奥利维亚·加齐斯为哥伦比亚广播公司新闻报道情报及国际安全事务。她曾两次获得艾美奖提名，曾随美国国务卿出访全球各地，并为哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的电视、广播、网络和流媒体平台提供关于情报、外交政策及其他安全议题的报道。
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美国国家情报总监图尔西·加巴德要求司法部对两名在特朗普总统首次弹劾调查中发挥核心作用的前政府官员展开调查。
加巴德办公室的一名发言人证实，她已就一名举报人和一名前情报社区监察长提交了刑事转介文件，但未详细说明所指控的具体罪行。司法部检察官将决定是否根据转介文件启动刑事调查。
此次转介此前，加巴德于本周早些时候批评了前情报社区监察长迈克尔·阿特金森处理2019年举报人投诉的方式，并公开了与阿特金森相关的一批文件。
这名身份尚未正式披露的举报人报告了一项“紧急担忧”，涉及特朗普总统请求乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基调查前副总统乔·拜登一事。投诉还对特朗普与泽连斯基通话记录的处理方式，以及特朗普当时的私人律师鲁迪·朱利安尼在美国对乌关系中所扮演的角色表示担忧。
“我从多名美国政府官员处获悉，美国总统正利用其职权，请求外国势力干预2020年美国大选，”举报人写道。“这种干预包括，除其他事项外，向外国施压，要求其调查总统的主要国内政治对手之一。”
特朗普先生于2019年底在众议院遭到弹劾，但在2020年初的参议院投票中，几乎全按党派立场获得无罪释放。他长期否认有任何不当行为，称其与泽连斯基的通话“完美无缺”。
加巴德周一在X平台上发帖指控，情报界的“深层国家行动者”“编造了虚假叙事，国会借此篡夺美国人民的意志，并在2019年弹劾了当选总统@realDonaldTrump”。她认为，监察长在调查举报人投诉时依赖了“二手证据”。
然而，这些文件并未提供任何直接证据证明存在刑事不当行为。
阿特金森于2020年被特朗普先生解雇。在被解职后的一份声明中，阿特金森表示，他“忠实地履行了”监察长的职责，并在近二十年的职业生涯中“不考虑党派偏袒或政治恐惧”。
阿特金森和司法部未立即回应置评请求。
此次刑事转介最先由福克斯新闻报道。
此次刑事转介是加巴德及其他政府官员重新审视特朗普总统第一任期政治斗争的最新举措。去年，她的办公室公布了与情报社区对2016年大选俄罗斯干预事件的审查相关的文件，声称这些文件显示拜登政府时期的官员存在“叛国阴谋”。
加巴德还表示，她将把这些文件提交给司法部，以启动刑事转介，不过目前尚不清楚所指控的刑事不当行为是什么。俄罗斯干预大选事件中的多名人物，包括前中央情报局局长约翰·布伦南，已被佛罗里达州联邦检察官的调查传唤。目前尚未提出任何指控。
众议院情报委员会最高民主党议员、康涅狄格州众议员吉姆·海姆斯尖锐批评了加巴德的转介行为，并为2019年的举报人辩护，称其在揭露特朗普先生“勒索乌克兰并虚假抹黑其对手”的企图时“展现了勇气和原则”。
“这起看似刑事转介的行为将不了了之，因为并未发生任何不当行为，但它会起到的作用是，让未来的举报人不敢满怀信心地向国会举报，担心法律不会保护他们。我怀疑这恰恰是其目的所在，”海姆斯在一份声明中说道。
Gabbard sends criminal referrals to DOJ for whistleblower and watchdog who helped launch Trump’s first impeachment
2026-04-15 10:41 PM EDT / CBS News
By Jacob Rosen, Olivia Gazis
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Jake Rosen is a reporter covering the Department of Justice. He was previously a campaign digital reporter covering President Trump’s 2024 campaign and also served as an associate producer for “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard asked the Justice Department to investigate two former government officials who played a central role in President Trump’s first impeachment inquiry.
A spokesperson for Gabbard’s office confirmed that she drafted criminal referrals for a whistleblower and a former intelligence community watchdog, but did not detail what specific crimes are alleged. Whether to pursue a criminal investigation following a referral is up to prosecutors at the Justice Department.
The referrals came after Gabbard criticized how former Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson handled the 2019 whistleblower complaint earlier this week, releasing a trove of documents linked to Atkinson.
The whistleblower — whose identity has not been formally disclosed — reported an “urgent concern” about President Trump’s request for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden. The complaint also expressed concerns about how records of a Trump-Zelenskyy phone call were handled, and about the role of Mr. Trump’s then-personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, in the U.S.’s relationship with Ukraine.
“I have received information from multiple U.S. Government officials that the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election,” the whistleblower wrote. “This interference includes, among other things, pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the President’s main domestic political rivals.”
Mr. Trump was impeached in the House of Representatives in late 2019, but was acquitted in a Senate vote mostly along party lines in early 2020. He has long denied any wrongdoing, referring to his phone call with Zelenskyy as “perfect.”
Gabbard alleged in a post on X Monday that “deep state actors” in the intelligence community “concocted a false narrative that Congress used to usurp the will of the American people and impeach duly-elected President @realDonaldTrump in 2019.” She argued that the inspector general relied on “second-hand evidence” in looking into the whistleblower complaint.
The documents, however, do not provide any direct evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
Atkinson was fired by Mr. Trump in 2020. In a statement after his removal, Atkinson said he had “faithfully discharged” his duties as inspector general and spent his nearly two-decade career serving “without regard to partisan favor or political fear.”
Atkinson and the Justice Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The referral was first reported by Fox News.
The criminal referrals mark the latest effort by Gabbard and other administration officials to revisit political battles from Mr. Trump’s first term. Last year, her office released files related to the intelligence community’s review of Russian interference in the 2016 election, claiming they showed a “treasonous conspiracy” by Biden-era officials.
Gabbard also said she would forward those documents to the Justice Department for a criminal referral, though it isn’t clear what criminal wrongdoing was alleged. Several figures from the Russian election interference saga, including former CIA Director John Brennan, have been subpoenaed as part of a probe by federal prosecutors in Florida. No charges have been filed.
Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, sharply criticized Gabbard’s referral and defended the 2019 whistleblower, whom he said “demonstrated courage and principle” in bringing to light Mr. Trump’s “efforts to extort Ukraine and falsely smear his opponent.”
“This apparent criminal referral will amount to nothing because no misconduct occurred, but what it will do is chill future whistleblowers from coming forward to Congress with confidence that the law will protect them. I suspect that is precisely the point,” Himes said in a statement.
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