Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s document releases about the Obama administration’s review of the 2016 election are leading President Trump to call for prosecution of former officials, including his predecessor.

But many Republicans in Congress aren’t ready to go quite that far.

While Trump’s GOP supporters in Congress have united in expressing outrage, they have varying ideas of what accountability looks like.

And Democrats say the Trump administration is completely misrepresenting the facts while abusing intelligence and the justice system. They also see it as a bid to distract from growing pressure on the White House to release more information about deceased financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The files reveal little new information about Russia's much-studied efforts to influence the 2016 election, but Republicans have nonetheless claimed the intelligence reviews were designed to cast doubt on Trump's victory. The documents do not undercut a central conclusion: that Russia lunched a massive campaign with the hopes of influencing the contest.

House GOP leaders are vowing Congress will investigate, but are stopping short of calling for prosecutions, as Trump has, or proposing any tangible consequences for those named in the newly released documents.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) called Gabbard’s disclosures “pretty earth-shattering.”

But Scalise declined to call for arrests or prosecutions.

“There needs to be accountability,” Scalise said. “But now our committees are going to go to work. There's a lot of work to do to find out more …. You follow the evidence wherever it leads, and then........

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