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Why Adam Schiff doesn’t want anyone talking to the whistleblower
nyPOST ^ | 12/30/2019 | Betsy McCaughey

Posted on 12/30/2019 8:15:40 PM PST by bitt

The truth behind House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff’s role in engineering President Trump’s impeachment may soon come out. Judicial Watch, a nonprofit group promoting government transparency, is suing to get the whistleblower’s e-mails.

That’s good news. Because no matter what comes of Trump’s Senate trial, Schiff should be held accountable for his devious methods.

The public also needs the truth about the so-called whistleblower. Real whistleblowers deserve to be treated like heroes. But Eric Ciaramella — the man Judicial Watch and many media accounts have identified as the whistleblower and who doesn’t deny it — is no hero.

To dignify Ciaramella with the term “whistleblower” misrepresents what he did. Sure, he filed what is technically called a whistleblower complaint. But he had no firsthand knowledge of Trump’s controversial July 25 phone call or motivations. Every allegation in the complaint begins with “I learned from multiple US officials,” or “multiple officials told me,” or “officials with direct knowledge informed me.” Just gossip. He never names any sources. Ciaramella acted as the anti-Trumpers’ front man. As for courage, not an ounce: He is cowering from public view.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: adamschiff; alexandervindman; burisma; california; ciaramella; declassification; ericciaramella; fbi; fisa; impeachment; judicialwatch; scaredschiffless; schiff; schiffforbrains; ukraine; whistleblower
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To: Swordmaker
What part of "got permission" to reveal the UNREDACTED fully unclassified complaint that any Congress member other than the Gang of Eight can read, do you fail to grasp?

I understand that's not what happened.

"Richard Burr told reporters his committee had received the whistleblower complaint shortly after 4 p.m..."

Is it your contention that Burr's communications staff confused "received" with "released", or are you just making things up?

61 posted on 12/31/2019 5:40:15 PM PST by semimojo
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To: Widget Jr

“Do I get a prize?”

Only if you can get the dastardly Vidman in jail, too!


62 posted on 12/31/2019 6:07:44 PM PST by bitt (A FRIVOLOUS impeachment vote is a SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY)
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To: elpadre

some sort of IG Atkinson was in cahoots with the whistleblower coup - it was he who changed the form so that it didn;t have to be ‘direct knowledge’ and HE who bumped it up..


63 posted on 12/31/2019 6:09:49 PM PST by bitt (A FRIVOLOUS impeachment vote is a SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY)
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To: semimojo; bitt
I still argue that. Every report I've seen says the complaint wasn't given to anyone in Congress before September 25th.

Then you have not been paying attention to the facts. It has been a known fact that Adam Schiff was involved before the ICIG ever was involved. . . And, in fact sent Eric Ciamarella to Atkinson to set all of this in motion. The events are known and the cast of characters are being discovered.

Adam Schiff Received the Whistleblower Complaint a Month Ago and Didn't Report It Until Now, Why?
By Katie Pavlich — Town Hall.com — September 27, 2019

As Democrats move full speed ahead with their impeachment efforts and false claims of "collusion" or election meddling, holes continue to be blown through their allegations.

Yesterday the full whistleblower complaint against President Trump's alleged behavior during a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was released. The call took place in July, but the date on the letter and who it was sent to are raising questions.

The complaint is in fact dated August 12. It was sent to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff in addition to Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr. The news of the complaint didn't break until last weekend.

Two weeks ago and just before this news broke, the Department of Justice Inspector General announced he has completed the investigation in FISA abuse and the origins of the Russia investigation. I'm sure the timing is coincidental.

There was a lot more such contemporaneous discussion, and more that went into the meta data, looking for proof of Schiff’s perfidy. They knew he had more than he was letting on because Nancy called for impeachment so shortly afterwards and had to be working with the original complaint, not the phone call transcript. This was all planned, scripted, staged, and then opened to not so rave reviews when Trump released the actual transcript, something they thought he would never do, because it is never done. They were sure they’d be able to couch it in their own terms.

64 posted on 12/31/2019 6:32:26 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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To: Swordmaker
The complaint is in fact dated August 12. It was sent to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff in addition to Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr. The news of the complaint didn't break until last weekend

Did you notice that Katie Pavlich didn't say when the complaint was sent to Congress?

She tries to make people who aren't paying attention think it was on August 12th.

Why do you think she's trying to deceive?

It was released to Congress, and the rest of the country, on September 25th.

If you have any other information, release it.

65 posted on 12/31/2019 7:01:52 PM PST by semimojo
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To: semimojo
Did you notice that Katie Pavlich didn't say when the complaint was sent to Congress?

She tries to make people who aren't paying attention think it was on August 12th.

Why do you think she's trying to deceive?

Here you are accusing a conservative journalist of ulterior conspiracy motives for reporting factual findings about the dating on the complaint. Why? Because YOU don’t like the implications.

Why do YOU think the worst of everyone but Adam Schiff, the WB, ICIG Atkinson, and the DEMS???

You are acting as if everything they’ve said is Gospel truth, despite every bit of evidence is to the contrary. How did Adam Schiff know ANYTHING ABOUT THE COMPLAINT BEFORE SEPTEMBER 25th, IF HE AND NO ONE ELSE IN CONGRESS DID NOT RECEIVE ANY COMPLAINT UNTIL THEN? Yet, Adam Schiff opened the hearings on the impeachment hearing rules based on misdeeds re the phone call on the morning of September 24th with his PHONY, made up recitation of what he claims was said by President Trump in the call? It was claimed to have been based on what was in the complaint. WHERE DID HE GET HIS INFORMATION? The Phone Call Complaint Fairy?

Your assertion is that the complaint was not released until the following the day. Oops. Schiff had to have had prior knowledge. So did Nancy Pelosi to set the impeachment in motion. . . How is that possible without having the complaint in hand. They did.

By the way, the original complaint sent to congress is nine pages in length. The unclassified section (as claimed by the WB, Eric Ciamarella) was seven pages, and classified (also as claimed by the WB, Eric Ciamarella) was only two. Three pages are added by the transmittal letter from the ICIG.

I’m done responding to you. You are just not worth the time. You ask for proofs in the forms of links or articles with factual information, then you denigrate it as some kind of conspiracy for ulterior motives because it doesn’t comport with YOUR world view. BAH!

Have a miserable New Year. . .

66 posted on 12/31/2019 8:00:58 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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To: Swordmaker

Have a great next decade.


67 posted on 12/31/2019 11:46:13 PM PST by semimojo
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To: Swordmaker
It is my assertion that the WB, Eric Ciamarella, committed perjury by checking off the box on the Form-401 claiming he had “Direct Knowledge” and not just second hand knowledge from co-workers, especially since the form warned that such second-hand knowledge and rumors was insufficient for the complaint to be accepted and would be rejected. He filed it under threat of perjury anyway with complete awareness and knowing he did not have any first hand information. It was deliberate.

____________

So if true, we can burn him if we can name him.

68 posted on 01/01/2020 3:02:42 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks a little elbow grease.

69 posted on 01/01/2020 7:33:00 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: stonehouse01
There is an more than one operative who was planted in the White House to spy and leak.

Expanded on your statement.

70 posted on 01/01/2020 12:00:11 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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