Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) has weighed in on allegations that former president Barack Obama and his national security team created a false intelligence community assessment in order to target Donald Trump following his election in 2016.

In a post on X, Lee noted that in the 1970s the Frank Church committee concluded that every administration since the era of Woodrow Wilson has used the nation’s intelligence-gathering communities for political espionage.

Lee suggested that it would be foolish to believe that this no longer happens and that, while people have brushed it aside for years, the practice can no longer be ignored.

Lee’s comments come just days after Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard publicly stated, “There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President Barack Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false.”

Gabbard has released a series of declassified documents that she says proves that senior intelligence officials under Obama had engaged in a “treasonous conspiracy” in conducting a “years-long coup” in order to undermine Trump.

Those documents include more than 100 pages of emails, memos and other records cataloguing what Gabbard called a “conspiracy to subvert President Trump’s 2016 victory” on the part of Obama administration officials.

In his post on X, Lee stated:

The enemies within our government have left us no choice but to (1) assume it has never stopped happening, and (2) dramatically restrict the power of the agencies involved.

Multiple agencies within the U.S. intelligence community had delivered assessments finding that Russia “had neither the intent nor capability to impact the outcome of the US election” in 2016.

DNI Gabbard says the goal of the conspirators was to subvert the will of the American people and to prevent the newly-elected Trump from fulfilling the mandate given to him by the people.

Gabbard added,  “No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, to ensure nothing like this ever happens again.”