'Incomprehensible': Ex-federal 'can’t even understand' Gabbard’s Obama claim

CNN Legal analyst Elie Honig said he could not fathom the case National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard thinks she has against former president Barack Obama.

When asked Thursday if the American public will “really see Obama or his aids prosecuted,” Honig said: “I rarely ever say ‘never’, but I’ll say ‘never’ here.”

“I went back and very carefully and slowly read all of Tulsi Gabbard’s press releases and explanations. It’s incomprehensible,” said Honig, a former assistant United States Attorney. “I can’t even understand what she is alleging Obama did wrong, never mind what he did that’s criminal.”

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Honig explained that what Obama actually did was “order up an intelligence assessment, which is something presidents do.”

“That assessment that came out of that has been corroborated by Republicans,” Honig added.

Last week, Gabbard made public a batch of documents that she claims provide evidence that high-ranking intelligence officials under Obama had orchestrated a “years-long coup” aimed at weakening Trump. She added that they were guilty of a “treasonous conspiracy.”

Honig took hard issue with Gabbard’s use of the word ‘treason” on Wolf Blitzer’s CNN show ‘The Situation Room.’

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“I want to be clear: When you hear people talking about ‘treason’, that’s not just a word that gets thrown out there. It is a specific criminal charge. It means ‘trying to overthrow the government of the United States,’ and the punishment for that is up to the death penalty. That’s how serious this is, and I don’t see anything in anything that’s come out from Tulsi Gabbard or anyone else suggesting that Barack Obama or anyone else committed anything even resembling treason here.”

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