During discussions on Sunday Morning Features about the key players pushing the Russia collusion hoax, Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer threw another name in the hat: Trump-appointed CIA Director Gina Haspel.

Haspel was the CIA station chief in London in 2016 and 2017 under then-CIA Director John Brennan. She was appointed in 2018 and stepped down in January 2021 after she “threatened to resign” if Trump appointed Kash Patel as her deputy, Axios reported.

“What role did she play not only in perhaps creating this, but what role did she play in suppressing it when she was CIA director and she was supposed to be serving Donald Trump rather than the CIA establishment?” Schweizer said. “She certainly had access to this material.”

More information continues to unfold showing that Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, and many other high-level government officials helped spread false allegations that Russia conspired with Donald Trump to try to help him win the 2016 election.

“It’s interesting to me that she had been the London chief of the CIA in the 2000s. In 2014, Brennan sent her back to London, which is a highly unusual move,” Schweizer said.

“Much of the Russia collusion intel — fake intel — was coming out of London from Steele and others,” he said.

In 2020, multiple senior U.S. officials told The Federalist that “Haspel is personally blocking the declassification and release of key Russiagate documents in the hopes that President Donald Trump will lose his re-election bid.”

The officials said that Haspel was concerned the 2016 election intel uncovering CIA activity would “embarrass the CIA and potentially even implicate Haspel herself.”

Republican senators even demanded that Haspel release the documents, but she still refused despite her purported “commitment to working with Congress.”

Last week, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said she was referring documents related to Obama’s role in fomenting the Russia collusion hoax for investigation of “criminal implications.” The DOJ also created a Strike Force “to assess the evidence” in response to the information released by Gabbard.

Abigail Nichols is a correspondent for The Federalist. She was previously the opinion editor for the University of South Florida's student newspaper, The Oracle. She is now working as the business manager at the University of North Florida's student-run media outlet, Spinnaker Media, while obtaining a Master's Degree in Social work.