A senior U.S. intelligence official-turned-whistleblower said Obama-era superiors pressured him to endorse flawed conclusions in a high-profile intelligence report on Russian election interference and that he was later cut out of key discussions after raising concerns about the Steele dossier’s role in shaping that assessment,

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a whistleblower’s account Wednesday detailing the pressure an Obama-era intelligence official applied on a subordinate to get them to sign off on an assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump.