Inspector General for the Intelligence Community (ICIG) Michael Atkinson said late on April 5 that President Donald Trump fired him in reprisal for referring the impeachment whistleblower’s complaint to House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
“It is hard not to think that the president’s loss of confidence in me derives from my having faithfully discharged my legal obligations as an independent and impartial inspector general, and from my commitment to continue to do so,” Atkinson said in a statement made public late April 5.
