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Home Front: Politix
Schiff Says Congress May Not Need To Interview Whistleblower After All
2019-10-14
[DAILYCALLER] Rep. Adam Schiff
...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation...
said Sunday that the House Intelligence Committee might not need to interview the CIA analyst who filed a whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump, a reversal for the Democrat, who has come under fire for failing to disclose the whistleblower’s contacts with his office.

Schiff acknowledged he initially supported the whistleblower testifying about the Aug. 12 complaint, which centered on a July 25 phone call Trump had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

"Given that we already have the call record, we don’t need the whistleblower who wasn’t on the call to tell us what took place during the call, we have the best evidence of that," Schiff said on "Face the Nation." "It may not be necessary to take steps that might reveal the whistleblower’s identity to do that, and we’re going to make sure we protect that whistleblower."

The Democrat has slowly pulled back his preference for the whistleblower to testify after it was revealed Oct. 2 that the CIA analyst had contact with a Schiff aide prior to filing the complaint Aug. 12.
Posted by:Fred

#19  I'd rather keep the Republican label as its the party of Lincoln and Reagan. Chase the grifters out and let them create a party of their own.
Posted by: ruprecht   2019-10-14 23:16  

#18  I think it says, "I ♥ Charlie Manson".

That boy just don't look right.
Posted by: Whavimp Grath4899   2019-10-14 21:28  

#17  BTW, is that an Antifah button on his lapel? Just askin'.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2019-10-14 21:02  

#16  Yes, Lex. The GGP. Plenty of bakseesh for thee and me!

Power to fook the People!
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2019-10-14 21:01  

#15  ^ Yes. They should form the Globalist-Grifter Party, to be opposed, post-Trump, by the National Party.
Posted by: Lex   2019-10-14 19:21  

#14  Maybe the RINOs and NeverTrumpers should be booted out to form their own "party".
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-10-14 16:39  

#13  Trump went to Louisiana and their legislature was flipped to Pub. Also, there is now a runoff between the sitting governor, a Dem and a Pub. Trump is the best asset of the Republican Party if some of the NeverTrumpers and RINOS would stop hating Trump and support him.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-10-14 16:31  

#12  What a miscarriage of government and due process.

Yes, but itkeeps the Democrats and their enablers busy and focussed while President Trump gets on with other things, like reorganizing the situation in Syria, persuading Mexico to stop passing all those migrants through, reducing NSA staffing by 2/3rds, proposing and approving more young judges, and so forth.

And elsewhere, Twitchy notes the response of the voters to all the shenanigans:

Republicans flip enough seats to gain a supermajority in the Louisiana State Senate

So even if the Democrat governor wins the runoff election next month, he’ll have trouble getting anything unconservative done.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-10-14 15:26  

#11  We would not want the truth to get in the way of the narrative, now would we.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2019-10-14 14:29  

#10  What he really means: "We may be able to have a secret trial and political lynching without the whistleblower. We already know Trump's guilty."

What a miscarriage of government and due process. Hope the people of Schiff's district get some sense and remove this guy from office in the voting booth. However, this is doubtful. He needs to be slapped hard for his lies to the American people and his illegal shenanigans.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-10-14 11:46  

#9  Go back to screenwriting, Schifferbrains
Posted by: Lex   2019-10-14 09:35  

#8  Wouldn't the Pubs get to ask a few questions, too, Shippy?>
Posted by: Bobby   2019-10-14 08:53  

#7  He just doesn't want it come to light in the interview just how much this person was in touch with Schiff writing this and who he worked for in the past.

It will be too obvious a frame job.
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-10-14 08:52  

#6  Ref #2: Kind of hard to interview someone who doesn't exist.


My thoughts as well. This gheckko eyed bugger would give Beatrix Potter a run for her money in garden variety fictions.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-10-14 05:41  

#5  Schiff would have made a good NKVD commissar, only to have his photo with Stalin edited with him out.
Posted by: Whavimp Grath4899   2019-10-14 05:10  

#4  "We already know Trump is guilty, guilty, guilty!"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-10-14 04:25  

#3  ...Or whose story has more holes than a ten-pound block of Swiss cheese...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2019-10-14 03:36  

#2  Kind of hard to interview someone who doesn't exist.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2019-10-14 01:34  

#1  Shitshow, Part 130.

Unbelievable. Banana republic time.
Posted by: Lex   2019-10-14 01:15  

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