Sean Davis, 13 April 2026

In 2019, during the peak hysteria of the Ukraine whistleblower impeachment hoax, I exclusively reported for The Federalist that the Intelligence Community Inspector General secretly gutted internal whistleblower rules requiring firsthand evidence of wrongdoing.

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— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 14, 2026

… whistleblower forms, the revisions, and the dates for all of it, and I conclusively proved all of it.

All hell broke loose after I published my report, with Deep State assets and their media lickspittles accusing me of lying, of fabrication, and of botching the facts.

I was 100% right, and they all knew it. How do we know this? Because the IG himself admitted under oath in testimony for Congress. And his staff, despite the fact of his testimony, lied about it for years, knowing that the proof of their conspiracy would be hidden within his classified testimony.

For nearly 7 years I waited for the transcript of that testimony to be released. Today, that finally happened, and that testimony fully vindicates my original reporting and full discredits everyone who falsely claimed it was inaccurate—including the staff of the IG who deliberately peddled lies about what they did, and how I caught them red-handed.

Here’s what he secretly admitted under oath: “When it came to my attention from one of the media inquiries that we had a form that required individuals to have firsthand information before they could file a complaint, I did two things.”

“I said, first of all, is that what our form says? And then the second thing once they told me, yeah, that’s what our form says, we need to change that,” Atkinson testified.

“So the timing is unfortunate. It looks suspicious, I get that,” he said. “What I should have done was I should have explained when we changed the form why we were changing it.”

“I should have been more transparent about the reasons and the motivations for the change in the forms,” he said.

The IC IG gutted its own internal rules, eliminated its longstanding requirement of first-hand whistleblower knowledge, did so because of the anti-Trump complaint, fraudulently backdated its changes, and did it all in secret, EXACTLY as I reported in 2019. And the admission by the IG himself that my reporting was accurately was HIDDEN from public view until today.

Thankfully I kept the receipts of every fraudulent, throne-sniffing Deep State crony and publication which cast aspersions on my credibility and that of my reporting.