Did this compromat originate with Shiff?
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I believe he helped craft it as he would want to design something he could work with. But he’ll claim that the intel person was desparate to “protect Americans” and resorted to contacting Schiff-less directly. Note Schiff is pretending he doesn’t know what’s in it, just that it exists, so there’s that fig leaf.
This seems very similar to the same shtick that Feinstein used with the Ford bimbo against Kavanaugh.
They are known for using the same tricks over and over.