Odd the Cleveland’s article does not even touch on Atkinson’s 100% failure as Chief counsel of the DoJ’s National Security Division to insure the Constitutional rights of American citizens by reviewing FISA applications. Of 29 FISA warrants examined as a sample by IG Horowitz, Atkinson failed to do his job 29 times. Whether consistently incompetent or corrupt, it was past time to give Atkinson the boot. Trump should be embarrassed to have appointed him as IGIC in the first place.
Atkinson had no prior experience with national security issues when he started the NSD job sometime in 2016.
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/os-matkinson-011718.pdf