FBI Director Kash Patel has released a bombshell report that a Democratic whistleblower accused now California Sen. Adam Schiff of approving the leaking of classified information to target President Donald Trump. While this is only the unverified allegation of a single former staffer, the alleged conduct would involve criminal and unethical conduct of the highest order, if proven.
The whistleblower is described as working for the House Intelligence Committee for over ten years and reported Schiff’s alleged conduct in 2017, according to documents obtained by Just The News.
The staffer described Schiff’s conduct as “treasonous” and “illegal.”
Schiff has previously been accused of politicalization of intelligence, including his claims (after the Special Counsel rejected the Russian collusion claims as unsupported) that he had secret evidence in the Committee proving such collusion. He never produced that evidence, and it is widely believed that it did not exist.
This is different. This would be a premeditated criminal act. It is hard to believe that a “player” like Schiff would be stupid enough to openly discuss such a criminal act in a staff meeting. However, the fact that the whistleblower made this allegation in a report to the FBI is equally probative. It is a crime to lie to federal investigators.
It is also notable that this allegation never leaked. At that time, the congressional committee and the FBI were leaking sieves of classified and embarrassing information targeting Trump and his associates. Yet, this allegation (as well exculpatory information on the Russian investigation for Trump) were not leaked or published in the media.
The whistleblower was reportedly very specific in details on the meeting:
“When working in this capacity, [redacted staffer’s name] was called to an all-staff meeting by SCHIFF. In this meeting, SCHIFF stated the group would leak classified information which was derogatory to President of the United States DONALD J. TRUMP. SCHIFF stated the information would be used to indict President TRUMP.”
[The whistleblower] stated this would be illegal and, upon hearing his concerns, unnamed members of the meeting reassured that they would not be caught leaking classified information.”
That is the type of statement that could presumably be confirmed by any of the staffers in the room, who are themselves subject to criminal charge if they lie to investigators. The question is what these staffers said to the FBI or whether it pursued this investigation fully in light of the alarming allegations.
What is clear is that someone is lying and someone is a felon. Either Schiff ordered the commission of a serious felony or this whistleblower made repeated false statements to the FBI. The public — and Congress — has every right to know the answer.