Debunked election claims behind Fulton County search spark new questions for Gabbard

 https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5738302-democrats-question-gabbard-fbi-search/

Democrats are asking new questions about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s presence at the FBI’s search of a Georgia voting center after an affidavit showed the federal case relies on widely debunked claims about the 2020 election.

“The newly unsealed affidavit shows this search originated from the frivolous claims of Kurt Olsen, an attorney who traffics in debunked falsehoods about the 2020 election. It also makes clear there was no foreign intelligence nexus. So why was the Director of National Intelligence there?” Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said in a statement.

“When the nation’s top intelligence official inserts herself into a matter with no connection to a foreign threat, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that the objective was political – namely, getting back into Donald Trump’s good graces – and that her presence was meant to lay the groundwork for baseless claims of foreign interference. Americans should be deeply concerned about what someone with sweeping authority over the country’s intelligence apparatus might do to achieve that.”

Brad Raffensperger (R), Georgia’s secretary of state who resisted pressure from Trump to “find” more votes in the 2020 election, criticized the merits of the claims underlying the search.