it's all beginning to fall apart .. for Schiff!

oh yeah. it's falling apart alright! BIGLY!


Where’s the whistleblower? Key GOP questions about Schiff’s contact may never be answered

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...er-be-answered


by Susan Ferrechio
| October 14, 2019 05:23 PM

House Republicans are eager to ask the whistleblower at the center of the impeachment inquiry a variety of questions about the scope and frequency of his contact with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff.

They also want to know about the California Democrat's role in orchestrating the complaint alleging President Trump sought Ukraine’s help investigating Joe Biden.

But it is appearing more likely Republicans will never have the chance to ask the whistleblower any questions at all about how closely he worked with Schiff’s team.

“At some point, both Schiff and the whistleblower came to the conclusion that his personal testimony stands to do more harm than good to both of them,” a Republican source who requested anonymity told the Washington Examiner.

Republicans planned to ask the whistleblower a long list of questions about his contact with Schiff. Among the questions is whether Schiff directed the whistleblower to file his complaint with the intelligence community inspector general, which gave Schiff’s committee official jurisdiction over the matter and provided a platform for them to launch an impeachment inquiry.

Schiff hasn’t made an announcement about the whistleblower’s appearance but it is looking increasingly likely he won’t be testifying at all, even though Democrats had once deemed his testimony crucial to their probe into Trump’s conduct during a July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Suddenly, the whistleblower has become irrelevant.

“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,” Schiff told CBS News on Sunday. “We have the best evidence of that.”

Schiff has over the past two weeks gradually veered away from his effort to interview the whistleblower citing the need to protect the person’s safety and anonymity.

But just weeks earlier, House Intelligence Committee Democrats were adamant about interviewing the whistleblower, even though he did not have first hand knowledge of the July 25 call.

Democrats demanded acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire promise to allow the testimony before House lawmakers conducting the impeachment probe.


“I was very pleased that the Director gave his personal assurance that that whistleblower would not only be protected, but when that whistleblower comes before our committee, and all that is remaining is to get the security clearances for his or her counsel, that when that whistleblower comes before our committee, there won't be any Department of Justice minder, no White House minder — no one to sit next to that whistleblower and try to circumscribe, redact anything that whistleblower has to say as it pertains to misconduct by the president or anyone around him,” Schiff told CNN last month.

Schiff became less enthusiastic about hearing from the whistleblower following his admission on Oct. 2, provided by his press team directly to the New York Times, that his top staff on the intelligence panel had, in fact, been in contact with the whistleblower prior to the whistleblower filing a formal complaint about the call with the intelligence community inspector general.

Schiff’s admission contrasted his earlier claim that the panel had no communication at all with the whistleblower.

And it drew sharp criticism from Republicans who cited it as evidence Schiff has been dishonest about his role in orchestrating the whistleblower complaint and subsequent leaks to the media.

“So the whistleblower was communicating with team Adam Schiff behind the scenes?” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee member Mark Meadows, a Republican from North Carolina, said. “Well. This explains a lot, indeed.”

Schiff has insisted he had no personal contact with the whistleblower and that only his staff handled the communication with the whistleblower, who approached the panel days before lodging the official complaint.

“As Chairman Schiff has made clear, he does not know the identity of the whistleblower, has had no communication with them or their attorney, and did not view the whistleblower’s complaint until the day prior to the hearing with the director of national intelligence, when the office of the director of national intelligence finally provided it to the committee,” Schiff spokesman Patrick Boland told the Washington Examiner.

Republicans believe the whistleblower’s contact with Schiff’s team was more significant than he has disclosed and say the GOP lawmakers on the panel would have compelled the whistleblower to testify about that contact.

“Republicans are convinced that the contacts between Schiff, his staff, and the whistleblower were much more extensive than reported,” the GOP source said.“If we get a second round of media stories about Schiff being deceptive again, that would be really damaging to Schiff,” the GOP source said. “He doesn’t want to have to answer those questions.”

Schiff has for weeks been building the case that the whistleblower believes his anonymity and safety would be threatened if he appears before the committee.

Democrats cite Trump’s comments calling the whistleblower’s account of the call “a fraud” and the whistleblower’s lawyers wrote to Congress and called Trump’s comments about the whistleblower “dangerous for our client and any other whistleblowers.”

odd way to phrase that yeah? our client ..

Schiff, speaking to CBS News Sunday, said his priority is making sure “the whistleblower is protected,” now that other whistleblowers are surfacing and that the original whistleblower’s testimony “may not be necessary.”

For Republicans, it will end any chance of finding out what guidance, if any, Schiff offered the whistleblower, when and how the whistleblower first contacted Schiff’s staff, whether the staff consulted with Schiff before advising the whistleblower, and what advice Schiff may have provided and whether they leaked any of the information to the media.

“Schiff has never given a full account of it, so about the only way we could get that information is to question the whistleblower directly,” the GOP source told the Washington Examiner. “Now, conveniently, Schiff is closing off that possibility.”

135 House Republicans co-sponsor resolution to censure Schiff over 'parody' reading of Trump-Zelensky call

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/125...-zelensky-call


A motion to censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., for his “parody” reading of President Trump’s July phone call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky during a hearing last month is gaining steam with House Republicans, as Fox News has learned 135 lawmakers have now signed on as co-sponsors.


The resolution to censure Schiff -- who has become a favorite target of Republicans for his role in the Trump impeachment inquiry -- was first introduced late last month by Rep. Andy Biggs, the Arizona Republican who chairs the conservative House Freedom Caucus, and has the support of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., among other ranking Republicans in the lower chamber of Congress.


CLICK HERE FOR THE NAMES OF THE CENSURE CO-SPONSORS


Democrats have the majority and control the floor in the House, but Republicans could still attempt to force a vote on the matter.


“Schiff simply does not have the gravitas that a weighty procedure such as impeachment requires,” Biggs wrote in an opinion piece for Fox News. “He has repeatedly shown incredibly poor judgment. He has persistently and consistently demonstrated that he has such a tremendous bias and animus against Trump that he will say anything and accept any proffer of even bogus evidence to try to remove the president from office.”


Fox News has requested comment from Schiff's office.


BOLTON INSTRUCTED FORMER RUSSIA ADVISER TO ALERT NSC LAWYER OVER UKRAINE, ADVISER TESTIFIES


Schiff, who is leading one of the committees investigating Trump in the impeachment inquiry announced by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has been under fire from conservatives for the “parody” of the president’s call with Zelensky that he read at the testimony last month of Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire.


Maguire was on Capitol Hill to defend his handling of the explosive whistleblower complaint detailing how Trump pressured his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.


The complaint contains allegations related to Trump’s call with Zelensky in July, when he urged him to investigate alleged corruption involving the Bidens.


The White House last month released an unclassified version of the transcript of the phone call. The memo, which does not reflect a “verbatim transcript” but is based on “notes and recollections” of those memorializing the call, shows Trump suggesting he pursue some kind of investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden.


GIULIANI 'DISAPPOINTED' IN BOLTON AMID CLAIM HE TOLD AIDE TO ALERT LAWYER TO UKRAINE PROBE


On the dais during Maguire’s testimony, Schiff gave his own exaggerated version of the phone call.


“I have a favor I want from you,” Schiff said while appearing to read from a paper. “And I’m going to say this only seven times, so you better listen good. I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand? Lots of it, on this and on that.”


Schiff has defended the version of the phone call he read at the testimony and chalked up his fictional summary of the controversial phone call to parody.


“My summary of the president’s call was meant to be at least, part, in parody,” Schiff said. “The fact that that’s not clear is a separate problem in and of itself. Of course, the president never said, ‘If you don’t understand me I’m going to say it seven more times’; my point is, that’s the message that the Ukraine president was receiving in not so many words.”


GAETZ SPEAKS OUT AFTER SCHIFF THROWS HIM OUT OF IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY HEARING


Schiff’s explanation, however, did little to quell the outrage of his Republican colleagues who were already on the defensive following Pelosi’s announcement last Tuesday of the impeachment inquiry into Trump.


“Chairman Adam Schiff has been lying to the American people for years,” McCarthy said in a tweet announcing that he signed on to co-sponsor Biggs’ resolution. “Now he is so desperate to damage the president that he literally made up a false version of a phone call. Enough is enough.”


The president also voiced his anger with Schiff – who he has labeled with the nickname “Shifty Schiff” -- calling the California Democrat “desperate” and accusing him of lying to Congress.


“Rep. Adam Schiff fraudulently read to Congress, with millions of people watching, a version of my conversation with the President of Ukraine that doesn’t exist,” Trump tweeted. “He was supposedly reading the exact transcribed version of the call, but he completely changed the words to make it sound horrible, and me sound guilty.”


Schiff, however, did not take Trump’s taunt sitting down, firing back an accusation that the president was trying to “shakedown” a foreign leader and then trying to cover it up.


“You engaged in a shakedown to get election dirt from a foreign country,” Schiff said in a tweet. “And then you tried to cover it up.”

it's all beginning to fall apart .. for Schiff!

Humpty Dumpty Shitface.

It's always refreshing to see due process strip away the tyranny driven by SocialistLiberalAntiTrumpers as they struggle to fabricate a justification of overturning the legal election of their worst nightmare.....

.....someone they can't buy or intimidate.

Just to demonstrate who stupidly ignorant they are ...... if by some slim chance they oust Trump and he decides not to run again ..... they get PENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mr. Bullet Proof!!!!!!!!!!!

Schiff doesn’t care that he’s made a jackass out of himself. He’s been a jackass from birth.

This reminds me of the Me Too shit - Just Believe me ........

Humpty Dumpty Shitface.

It's always refreshing to see due process strip away the tyranny driven by SocialistLiberalAntiTrumpers as they struggle to fabricate a justification of overturning the legal election of their worst nightmare.....

.....someone they can't buy or intimidate.

Just to demonstrate who stupidly ignorant they are ...... if by some slim chance they oust Trump and he decides not to run again ..... they get PENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mr. Bullet Proof!!!!!!!!!!! Originally Posted by LexusLover

They're trying to put bullets in Pence. They've "subpoenaed" documents that he's refused to give them.

If they have time, they'll work on Pence also. But they won't have time and they know it.

So the quandary is if a water balloon can be a smoking gun.
Opps, dropped that, can't use it.

Originally Posted by WTF

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Whistleblower did not disclose contact with Schiff’s committee to inspector general, sources say

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ukr...al-sources-say


"The sources said ICIG Michael Atkinson told lawmakers in a closed session that the whistleblower did not disclose the contact with the California Democrat's committee and that Atkinson didn’t investigate that contact as he had no knowledge of it."


"On Friday, sources also told Fox News that Atkinson also revealed that the whistleblower volunteered he or she was a registered Democrat and that they had a prior working relationship with a prominent Democratic politician."

hmmm. a prominent Democratic politician. who might that be?

. Originally Posted by WTF

Is this WTF twin? can't be must be his daddy!

So many who voted for Trump did so cause they wanted to “shake things up”. Well, congrats. America is now shaken. This administration and the GOP enablers is madness. And we can’t end it soon enough

So many who voted for Trump did so cause they wanted to “shake things up”. Well, congrats. America is now shaken. This administration and the GOP enablers is madness. And we can’t end it soon enough Originally Posted by matchingmole

if you say so.

So many who voted for Trump did so cause they wanted to “shake things up”. Well, congrats. America is now shaken. This administration and the GOP enablers is madness. And we can’t end it soon enough!!

So many who voted for Trump did so cause they wanted to “shake things up”. Well, congrats. America is now shaken. This administration and the GOP enablers is madness. And we can’t end it soon enough!! Originally Posted by matchingmole

if you say so.