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.
Stinks. Like a fetid swamp.
Next thing you know we will find out the spy is Shifty’s cousin
It is NOT a Whistlerblower, it is a SPY that conspired with others to leak classified information in an effort to Overthrow The United States Government
BTTT
Republican Senators can subpoena these folks and put them under oath.
Find out who told them what. And whether they talked to the Blower after x date, what was the nature of the conversation etc.
The same with their conversations with Schiff.
How could Trump NOT know McMaster was a traitor?
“CONSPIRACY” is a crime too...
I hope horrible, painful things happen to Eric Ciaramella, Schiff, Pelosi and all other democRat scum bags involved in this coup.
Nails it................
That's the worst thing you can hear when you visit the Clinic.
Geez Louise, this just gets worse by the day.
Without the Ministry of Propaganda these people would be locked up.
au contraire pierre, the real information to uncover is what was said BEFORE x date. This was a set up from day one. When you sweat the panties of the underlings in the crosshairs, you will get incredible information.
Mismo looks like a good subject for electronic surveillance.
How is it these people spent time with this, “person”, and we don’t know who this is???
Someone knows Schiff spent time with him, ergo, THAT person knows who this is...so who is it???
BIG DISCLAIMER: Sarcasm!
Name is known... or at least suspected with almost certainty.
Eric Ciaramella.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1182471548738953216.html
I know it isn’t right, but I hate this SOB Schiff with every fiber of my existence. He’s a complete $hitheel, a complete charlatan, and he’s working to destroy this country.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.