Schiff’s Surveillance State: The Democrat demands, and then discloses, the call logs of his opponents.

Wall Street Journal ^ | December 4, 2019

[karpov]

Democrats are trying to convince Americans that President Trump should be ousted for trying to “dig up dirt” on a rival. They’d have more credibility if they didn’t abuse their surveillance powers for drive-by smears of Republicans and a free press.

Adam Schiff’s 300-page House Intelligence impeachment report doesn’t include much new about Mr. Trump’s Ukrainian interventions. But it does disclose details of telephone calls between ranking Intelligence Republican Devin Nunes, Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jay Sekulow, reporter John Solomon, former Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, the White House, and others. The details are “metadata” about the numbers and length of the calls, not the content.

The impeachment press is playing this as if the calls are a new part of the scandal, but the real outrage here is Mr. Schiff’s snooping on political opponents. The Democrat’s motive appears to be an attempt to portray Mr. Nunes, a presidential defender and Mr. Schiff’s leading antagonist in Congress, as part of a conspiracy to commit impeachable offenses.

“It is, I think, deeply concerning, that at a time when the President of the United States was using the power of his office to dig up dirt on a political rival, that there may be evidence that there were members of Congress complicit in that activity,” Mr. Schiff told the press on Tuesday. Complicit in what? Doing his job of Congressional oversight? Talking to Mr. Trump’s lawyer to get a complete view of the Ukrainian tale? Apparently Mr. Schiff now wants to impeach Members of Congress too.

This is unprecedented and looks like an abuse of government surveillance authority for partisan gain. Democrats were caught using the Steele dossier to coax the FBI into snooping on the 2016 Trump campaign. Now we have elected members of Congress using secret subpoenas.

[Bedford Forrest]

Some people have no situational awareness, none!

And so it begins

[itsahoot]

At this point I would only trust sekulow as the AG.

Which is why he will never be there.

[Bedford Forrest]

Some people have no situational awareness, none!

And so it begins

[TheConservativeTejano]

The real problem is that no Dem is being held accountable for this garbage, at least not so far.

Partner, the DemonRat party will be held accountable in the 2020 Elections!

Also, Paul Ryno is one of the worst Speakers ever in the People's House as is Madame Pelousy.

[TheConservativeTejano]

The real problem is that no Dem is being held accountable for this garbage, at least not so far.

Partner, It probably will take too long to make the Republican party "street fighters" like our current POTUS.

The Republican party will now have to be street fighters and call out the DemonRat party everytime one of them suggests anything in the People's House.

They could start by calling "Schiff for Brains" do you think you are "Judge Roy Bean" from West Texas who used to be the "Judge, Jury, and Executioner" in the People's House.

[Jeff Chandler]

if POTUS called up AT&T and said for them to give him the records

I doubt AT&T would comply.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

But understand - even the attempt to do so would make a stink. They would line up witnesses, documents, records and whatever. Any shred they could use no matter how thin would be enough in their world, haven't you noticed.

 

 

[CivilWarBrewing]

Adam Schiff should be PROSECUTED for PUBLIC RELEASING private citizen's phone records, namely Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani's and Jay Sekulow's.

Trump needs to reassert his rights to executive privilege and Schiff needs to PAY for his mentality that HE is the president.

[Jeff Chandler]

Adam Schiff should be PROSECUTED for PUBLIC RELEASING private citizen's phone records

I'm sorry, but did you miss the "D" by his name?

[Missouri gal]

Nunes said the phone numbers looked like random nonsense. He would have surely recognized his own number, so Schiff may have altered the record given to Republicans to hide what he was doing.

[Buttons12]

Aaaaand....what will be done about this perfidy?

[TigersEye]

Schiffhead is way out over the tips of his clown shoes!

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Making Joe McCarthy look like a saint.

[wastoute]

We are still waiting for people to be arrested for crimes committed before the Ukrainian President decided to help Hillary by getting Manafort arrested. Think on that for a wee bit. (IOW if you are still waiting for coup conspirators to be arrested, get a life.)