Posted on 10/11/2019 11:51:44 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff recruited two former National Security Council aides who worked alongside the CIA whistleblower at the NSC during the Obama and Trump administrations, the Washington Examiner has learned.
Abigail Grace, who worked at the NSC until 2018, was hired in February, while Sean Misko, an NSC aide until 2017, joined Schiff's committee staff in August, the same month the whistleblower submitted his complaint.
The whistleblower was an NSC official who worked with former Vice President Joe Biden and who has expertise in Ukraine, the Washington Examiner has reported.
A career CIA analyst with Ukraine expertise, the whistleblower aired his concerns about a phone conversation between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to a House Intelligence Committee aide on Schiff’s staff. He had previously informed the CIA’s legal counsel's office.
Schiff initially denied he knew anything about the complaint before it was filed, stating on Sep. 17: “We have not spoken directly with the whistleblower. We would like to."
But it later emerged that a member of his staff had spoken to the whistleblower before his complaint was submitted on Aug. 12. The Washington Post concluded that Schiff "clearly made a statement that was false."
Grace, 36, was hired to help Schiff’s committee investigate the Trump White House. That month, Trump accused Schiff of "stealing people who work at White House." Grace worked at the NSC from 2016 to 2018 in U.S.-China relations and then briefly at the Center for a New American Security think tank, which was founded by two former senior Obama administration officials.
A Schiff aide commented in February: "We have hired staff for a variety of positions, including the committee's oversight work and its investigation. Although none of our staff has come directly from the White House, we have hired people with prior experience on the National Security Council staff for oversight of the agencies, and will continue to do so at our discretion." Schiff himself said, "If the president is worried about our hiring any former administration people, maybe he should work on being a better employer."
Misko, 37, worked in the Obama administration as a member of the secretary of state’s policy planning staff under deputy chief of staff Jake Sullivan, who became Hillary Clinton's top foreign policy official during her 2016 presidential campaign. In 2015, Misko was the director for the Gulf states at the NSC, remaining there into the Trump administration’s first year.
A source familiar with Grace's work at the NSC told the Washington Examiner, “Abby Grace had access to executive privilege information, and she has a duty not to disclose that information. She is not authorized to reveal that information.”
The same source said that Misko had not been trusted by Trump appointees. "There were a few times where documents had been signed off for final editing before they go to the national security adviser for signature," the source said. "And he actually went in and made changes after those changes were already finished. So he basically tried to insert, without his boss' approval.
"There were meetings in which he protested very heavily, and next thing you know, there's an article in the paper about the contents of that meeting."
Misko often clashed with other NSC personnel at meetings, another source said. Both Grace and Misko were close to Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, Trump's national security adviser from Feb. 2017 until May 2018.
Misko was a CNAS fellow in 2014. Misko's name surfaced in the Hillary Clinton email controversy when he worked in the State Department during the Obama administration.
In a Dec. 1, 2009, email released by Judicial Watch, Clinton adviser Huma Abedin sent classified information regarding foreign military contributions to the Afghanistan war effort to her private email account. That email originated with Misko, who wrote to Sullivan that he initially “accidentally” sent it on the “high side” (secure) but was sending the email again.
The intelligence committee did not respond to a request for comment.
what is next?
schiff has dinner once a week with the whistle blower
schiff and the whistle blower are very good friends
schiff and the whistle blower engage in anal sex 3 times a week and oral sex twice
Trump should have fired McM and his whole damn sh**aree.
The last one... at Buck’s mansion and it was 3 way daisy chains.
As Lewis Carroll would say, things get curioser and curioser.
Critical mass is building, and not in a good way for Schiff. Deflection will only go so far, before the national media is forced to grudgingly report on this. But once it’s out, it’s out. The toothpaste will not return inside the tube
I still very very very strongly suspect John Miller and John Barron are behind this and it is a setup. Wink, Wink.
Are these the same aids that met with the whistle-blower prior to the complaint being filed with the IG?
This case just keeps getting dirtier and dirtier as the days go on. It is Pelosi and Schiff who should be impeached.
Yep...Eric Ciaramella.
Is a way, this is disrespectful to swamps, which God created and which serve a useful purpose in supporting life.
It’s more a cesspool, where human waste collects.
He needs to recuse himself, a fact witness and hiring witnesses.
The fallacy isthere was no whistle
The whole thing is fiction
I have no idea how Trump has survived these plotters, liars and back stabbers. The whistleblower is an Obama mole from the git go.
See #25
It sure is a fiction and every step the Dims take there seems to be a rake there.
#Schiffyism
Remember when they called Manning a “whistleblower” while he was scouting for files to leak because he hated the fon’t ask don’t tell policy?
Republican Senators can subpoena these folks and put them under oath.
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They could. They should. But they won’t.
And they’ll tell us we should vote for them.
No worries. I am sure Graham will want Rudy to testify about corruption in the House Intel committee.
I have no idea how Trump has survived these plotters, liars and back stabbers.
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Which ones are you referring to? The Democrats or the Republicans?
I bet you the Chinese have given each rat member of house a billion to destroy or bring trump down!! I read somewhere that the evil Chinese reps were just screwing around with the trade agreement as long as they can until impeachment or 2020 comes around....NO deal insight!
Clinton’s biggest Ukrainian donor: Billionaire Victor Pinchuk paid Clinton pollster Doug Schoen to set up meetings Team Obama.
Schoen was on Hannity all the time. Don’t know if that is still the case as I have tuned Mr. Tick Tock out.
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