The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released declassified transcripts of 2019 hearings with former Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson in April 2026, a move that arrived alongside broader legislative and executive action on counterintelligence reform. The transcripts were voted out of committee in late March and publicly released two weeks later, framing a period of intensified scrutiny of the IC’s internal oversight mechanisms and the political uses to which those mechanisms have been put.