Is Schiff a spy, a liar, or a jerk: 3 things can be true at once

Former Trump administration high-ranking official, Mike Pompeo, accused Rep. Adam Schiff [aka Schiffhead] (D-CA) of leaking classified information during his time on the House Intelligence Committee, where he and the other members are sworn to keep all classified information to themselves, which they don't.

The allegations come after Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) blocked the bug-eyed congressman's appointment to remain on the House Intelligence Committee, where he was its chairman the last four years and repeatedly made claims about information he alleged to have about former President Donald Trump and Russian collusion. Of course, all of this turned out to be a lie but Schiff remained as chairman and nothing was done to stop him from helping the Democrats steal the presidential election.

“During my time as CIA director and secretary of state, I know that he [Schiffhead] leaked classified information that had been provided to him,” Pompeo told Fox News on Wednesday.

Pompeo did not offer specifics, but he insisted the problem was bad enough to restrict what he shared with Congress.

He also appeared on Fox News' "Outnumbered" and was asked by co-host Emily Compagno why Schiff has not been held accountable if such leaks would be "a felony at minimum, up to treason."

“It’s a complicated process, right? It’s difficult to pin down precisely what happened,” Pompeo said. “But I could tell you that when we provided information to him and to his staff, it ended up in places it shouldn’t have been with alarming regularity. We could see it. In the end, I decided, I held back information from them as a result.”

That's what a trial for treason could sort out but it never came to that because people in power tend to get away with most anything, perhaps even murder (see Hillary Rodham Clinton for more on the subject).

Schiff denied leaking classified information, of course, because if he admitted to it, he'd be in big trouble. He unconvincingly told the Communist News Network in 2020, “I haven’t. My staff hasn’t,” but also added, “I can’t speak for what all the members of the committee have done or not done, including a lot of the Republican members.”

Others in the intelligence community have also pointed out that Schiff had leaked classified information to the public and therefore enemies of the United States. Former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell said the Schiff and his cronies “regularly” leaked classified information.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) suggested to conservative commentator Lisa Boothe in April 2021 that Schiff could be a source for dubious reports on Russia offering bounties to Afghan militants to kill U.S. troops. Schiff spokesman Patrick Boland shot back with a brief response to the Washington Examiner at the time, “Yet another false and baseless claim by Tom Cotton — you would think he would know better by now.”

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Speaker McCarthy kicked the Schiff off the House Intelligence Committee, along with Rep. Eric [aka Gasman] Swalwell (D-CA), the latter who was discovered to be banging Fang Fang a Chinese spy. McCarthy called Schiff a serial liar, especially in regard to investigations related to Donald Trump, and Pompeo praised the Speaker for removing Schiff from the committee.

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) nominated Schiff to the committee over the weekend, calling him “eminently qualified.” After he was blocked, Schiffhead responded by claiming McCarthy’s move was “petty, political payback for investigating Donald Trump,” and that he had inside information that would take down the entire GOP, Donald and Melania Trump, Russia, Tucker Carlson, Hannity, Ben Shapiro, and the Rockettes. 

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Rice was told by Obama to write a CYA memo

Well, it turns out that former national security adviser Susan Rice was allegedly instructed by the Obama White House to write her memo about the Oval Office meeting with top officials regarding Michael Flynn, according to a report. The meeting also included Obama himself and Joe Biden.

The memo was written on the same day Donald Trump was sworn into office--January 20, 2017 and it concerned the meeting which took place two weeks prior.

On Wednesday, Fox News correspondent Gillian Turner reported  that Rice’s team confirmed to Fox News that “she was directed by White House Counsel to write the Jan 20, 2017 memorandum documenting an Oval Office meeting in which President Obama [and] National Security officials discussed Michael Flynn.”

Turner tweeted:

#BREAKING: @AmbassadorRice’s team confirms to #FoxNews that she was directed by White House Counsel to write the Jan 20, 2017 memorandum documenting an Oval Office meeting in which President Obama & National Security officials discussed #MichaelFlynn.
— Gillian Turner (@GillianHTurner)

“The meeting took place on January 5, 2017, and involved Rice, Obama, and Vice President Biden, the administration’s top political hierarchy on national-security matters, along with Obama’s top law-enforcement and counterintelligence officials, deputy attorney general Sally Yates (soon formally to take the acting AG role she was already performing), and FBI director James Comey,” former U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy wrote Wednesday. “Prior redactions had already demonstrated that the meeting’s central purpose was to discuss the rationale for withholding intelligence about Russia from the incoming Trump national-security team.”

Rice’s “TOP SECRET” memo from January 20, 2017, was declassified by the Acting Director of the U.S. National Intelligence Richard Grenell and it stated:

On January 5, following a briefing by IC leadership on Russian hacking during the 2016 Presidential election, President Obama had a brief follow-on conversation with FBI Director Jim Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates in the Oval Office. Vice President Biden and I were also present. 

President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities “by the book”. The President stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book. 

From a national security perspective, however, President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia. 

Director Comey affirmed that he is proceeding “by the book” as it relates to law enforcement. From a national security perspective, Comey said he does have some concerns that incoming NSA Flynn is speaking frequently with Russian Ambassador Kislyak. Comey said that could be an issue as it relates to sharing sensitive information. President Obama asked if Comey was saying that the NSC should not pass sensitive information related to Russia to Flynn. Comey replied ”potentially.” He added that he has no indication thus far that Flynn has passed classified information to Kislyak, but he noted that “the level of communication is unusual.” 

The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.

Attorney General William Barr debunked the claims that there was anything wrong with the communication Flynn had with the Russian ambassador.

"I was at the Iowa thing, leg hair corn pop"

“That call, there was nothing wrong with it whatever,” Barr said. “In fact, it was laudable. He– and it was nothing inconsistent with the Obama administration’s policies. And it was in U.S. interests. He was saying to the Russians, you know, ‘Don’t escalate.’ And they asked him if he remembered saying that, and he said he didn’t remember that.”

It was a case of Flynn doing his job.

McCarthy noted how Rice kept changing her story as more information became available. 

“Rice has gone from claiming to have had no knowledge of Obama administration monitoring of Flynn and other Trump associates, to claiming no knowledge of any unmaskings of Trump associates, to admitting she was complicit in the unmaskings, to — now — a call for the recorded conversation between retired general Michael Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak to be released because it would purportedly show that the Obama administration had good reason to be concerned about Flynn (y’know, the guy she said she had no idea they were investigating).”

Maybe the whole debacle over Flynn was simply due to a video.



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Adam Schiffing in his skivvies as Russian probe transcripts are revealed

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) might need to got to Costco for a few 6 packs. No, not for beer, for underwear.

Transcripts of House Intelligence Committee interviews have been cleared by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and intelligence officials affirm that they have zero evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. [H/T: Fox News]

This goes along with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and it makes Committee Chairman Adam Schiff's claim that he has evidence against the Trump campaign sound like the boy who cried that he has “direct evidence” of collusion.

One senior administration official told Fox News, “Schiff is in panic mode.”

The GOP sought to obtain over 6,000 pages of transcripts pertaining to 2017 and 2018 committee interviews after a bipartisan vote in 2018 to release the transcripts to the public.

The following day, acting DNI director Richard Grenell notified Schiff[less] that the redactions and declassification process was complete and the transcripts were ready for release, thus causing Schiff's eyes to bulge and his skivvies to moisten.

Now it was Schiff's move.

But on Wednesday, intelligence officials told the outlet that Schiff had his subcommittee staff director reaching out to other intel agencies to determine how Grenell was involved and what his role was, since he was not a Trump-hater and may have wanted to learn the truth. If Grenell was involved in the declassification process, Schiff would try to taint the veracity of the transcripts.

But lah-dee-dah; the redactions were completed before Grenell became acting director in February.

Costco opens at 10:00 a.m.

The redaction and declassification process took place under former directors Dan Coates and Joseph Maguire and conducted by career intelligence officials, Fox News reported. The official also told the outlet that the relevant heads of appropriate agencies were consulted on the declassifications and redactions of all 53 transcripts.

Grenell informed Schiff on May 4, that the review of 43 of the 53 transcripts "was completed in June 2019," and the "interagency review of the remaining ten transcripts has been completed," adding, "pursuant to your guidance, these transcripts have not been shared with the White House."

The final ten transcripts included interviews with Donald Trump Jr., former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, the president’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, Trump aide, the hot Hope Hicks and former campaign manager the execrable Corey Lewandowski.

Putting Schiff deeper in the hole, Grenell wrote that he was "willing" to release the transcripts directly from the ODNI “as to ensure we comply with the unanimous and bipartisan vote to release the transcripts.” It’s unclear, at this point, when Grenell could release the transcripts.

A House Intelligence Committee spokesman told Fox News on Wednesday that the panel received Grenell’s letter on Tuesday.

“After more than a year of unnecessary delay, the ODNI has finally concluded its protracted classification review of the committee’s transcripts, and it also appears the White House has now abandoned its improper insistence on reviewing key transcripts, which the committee appropriately rejected,” the spokesman said.

“We are now reviewing the proposed redactions from ODNI based on classification, law enforcement sensitivity or items ODNI requests be for official use only,” the spokesman continued. “Given the overtly political role now played by the acting DNI, including the leak of his letter, this committee and the public can have little confidence that his determinations are made on the merits.”

The spokesman added: “This process had already taken far too long, most notably because the ODNI improperly held up the declassification review and release of several transcripts at the request of the White House.”

The spokesman also said that the committee’s review of ODNI’s “newly proposed redactions” would be “as expeditious as possible given the constraints of the pandemic.” He continued, “We look forward to releasing these transcripts, which relate to misconduct by the Trump campaign and the president himself.”

The 53 eligible transcripts include interviews with Don Jr., Bannon, Hicks, Kushner, Lewandowski, Roger Stone, Brad Parscale, Mike Caputo, Rick Dearborn, and former Trump attorney [now disbarred] Michael "The Chin" Cohen.

Interview transcripts with Obama officials such as former DNI Director James "Wittingly" Clapper; former Attorney General Loretta  Lynch; former UN Ambassador Samantha Power; former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe; former National Security Adviser Susan "It Was A Video" Rice; former Obama counselor and Hillary Clinton Campaign Manager John Podesta; and several more too corrupt to mention.

The people interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee during the Russia probe were all asked whether they had any evidence that Trump or anyone in his campaign conspired, colluded or coordinated with Russia during the 2016 campaign and not a single one of them could provide even a shred of evidence to support the collusion claim.

“The transcripts show a total lack of evidence, despite Schiff personally going out saying he had more than circumstantial evidence that there was collusion,” one source involved in House Russia investigations told Fox News.

Mueller, similarly, at the conclusion of his nearly two-year-long, overpriced, taxpayer-funded investigation, said he and his team found no evidence of criminal conspiracy or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia, but did not reach a conclusion on obstruction of justice, which current Attorney General Bill Barr ultimately decided not to pursue.


While law enforcement officials have long maintained that there was clear intelligence Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election, to date, there have been no charges concerning actual conspiracy against people associated with the Trump campaign, which was at the core of the Russia investigation.

The Russia probe never produced charges linking the Trump campaign and Russia as part of a criminal conspiracy.

"Cleanup in Aisle 3!"


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