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18 May 2020, 6:27 am by Jack Goldsmith, Ben Miller-Gootnick
This was the exact reason and language Trump used when he fired Michael Atkinson as inspector general of the intelligence community in April. [read post]
12 May 2020, 1:37 pm by Kate Oh
 The ouster is also only the latest in a series of troubling actions by the president against the nation’s inspectors general, including firing Michael Atkinson, the inspector general of the intelligence community, and demoting the Pentagon’s acting inspector general, which then made him ineligible to serve on the newly-created Pandemic Response Accountability Committee. [read post]
8 May 2020, 7:50 am by Elsa Kania
Most recently, on April 3, Trump fired the inspector general of the intelligence community, Michael Atkinson, who in August 2019 notified Congress of the whistleblower complaint on Trump’s undue pressure on Ukraine for political purposes. [read post]
4 May 2020, 5:00 am by Nicholas Rasmussen, Margaret Taylor
Do you think former Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson faithfully discharged his legal obligations as an independent and impartial inspector general? [read post]
4 May 2020, 4:00 am by CAFE
Plus, the recent firing of Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson and what that means for U.S. national security. [read post]
1 May 2020, 7:44 am by Laura Peterson
Michael Atkinson, Inspector General for the Intelligence Community, was removed from his post on April 4, allegedly in retaliation for passing on the whistleblower complaint that led to President Trump’s impeachment. [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 10:48 am by Charlotte Butash
First, on April 3, Trump fired Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, who had notified Congress of the whistleblower complaint that led to the president’s impeachment. [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 10:48 am by Charlotte Butash
First, on April 3, Trump fired Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, who had notified Congress of the whistleblower complaint that led to the president’s impeachment. [read post]
20 Apr 2020, 10:19 am by Hadley Baker, Elliot Setzer
Mark Warner and Dianne Feinstein sent a letter on Friday to the Justice Department calling for an investigation of Attorney General Barr’s comments on the firing of Inspector General Michael Atkinson, writes the Hill. [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 1:04 pm by Dianne Feinstein
On Friday, April 3, President Trump removed Michael Atkinson from his role as inspector general of the U.S. intelligence community. [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 12:20 pm by Elliot Setzer
Michael Atkinson, the dismissed inspector general, had initially alerted Congress about a whistleblower complaint that led to Trump’s impeachment, U.S. intelligence agencies began tracking the novel coronavirus outbreak as early as November, weeks before that information was included in President Trump’s daily intelligence briefing, according to CNN. [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 7:57 am by Ben Kostyack
Senator Charles Grassley and a bipartisan group of lawmakers sent a letter calling on President Trump to explain his reasoning for firing Intelligence Community Inspector General (IC IG) Michael Atkinson. [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Trump informed Congress he was firing Michael Atkinson, saying in letters to the House and Senate intelligence committees that he had lost confidence in him. [read post]
9 Apr 2020, 1:00 am by CAFE
The Invisible Enemy," Preet answers listener questions about: The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision on Wisconsin’s plan to extend absentee voting amid the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic Whether recently fired Inspector General for the Intelligence Community Michael Atkinson could sue the government for wrongful termination, and the parallels to the firing of former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe Transitioning from the military into the field… [read post]
Moving to Michael Atkinson, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community who was appointed by Trump in 2018 and fired on Friday, April 3, what were his key responsibilities? [read post]
8 Apr 2020, 4:00 am by Benjamin Wittes
Yet last week, the president announced the firing of Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson for overtly retaliatory reasons. [read post]
7 Apr 2020, 6:04 pm by CAFE
  — The news that Trump has fired Michael Atkinson, the Inspector General for the Intelligence Community, ostensibly as payback for his role in bringing to light the whistleblower complaint that ultimately led to the President’s impeachment. [read post]
6 Apr 2020, 1:30 pm by Ben Kostyack
Kohn argued that the firing of Intelligence Community Inspector General (IG) Michael Atkinson will impact how the government handles the coronavirus crisis. [read post]
6 Apr 2020, 9:27 am by Elliot Setzer
President Trump on Friday fired Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, whose insistence on telling lawmakers about a whistleblower complaint triggered impeachment proceedings last fall, reports the New York Times. [read post]