Patrick Philbin: reports of contact between the whistleblower and Schiff’s staff are “shrouded in secrecy.” VIDEO 1:41min. https://youtu.be/JN3hzQc239M
Posted on 01/29/2020 4:55:21 PM PST by jazusamo
Deputy White House Counsel Patrick Philbin shredded House Intelligence Committee Chairman and lead Impeachment Manager Adam Schiff (D-CA) for his contact with the Ukranian whistleblower, which led to the impeachment inquiry, and eventually the current trial. As it currently sits, we are still in the dark about what role Schiff and his staff played in the whistleblower's inquiry.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) presented the question on behalf of Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO).
"Is it true that Shawn Misco and Abigail Grace and the alleged whistleblower were employed by or detailed by the National Security Council in the same time period of January 20, 2017 and the present? Do you have reason to believe they knew each other and have any reason to believe that alleged whistleblower and Misco did everything they could to 'take out the president'?
"Mr. Chief Justice, Senators, the only knowledge that we have of this comes from public reports. I gather that there is a news report in some publication that suggests a name for the whistleblower and suggests where he worked and that he worked at that time while detail of the NSC staff for Vice President Biden and others who worked there," Philbin explained. "We have no knowledge of that other than what is in the public reports, and I don't want to get into speculating about that."
"It is something, to an unknown extent, may have been addressed in the testimony of the inspector general of the intelligence community before Chairman Schiff's committees, but that testimony, contacts with the whistleblower, contacts with Manager Schiff's staff and the whistleblower, are shrouded in secrecy to this day," Philbin explained.
"We don't know what the testimony of the IC IG was. It remains secret. It has not been forwarded," he said. "We don't know what Manager Schiff's staff contact with the whistleblower have been and what connections there are there. It's something that would seem to be relevant since the whistleblower started this entire inquiry."
Philbin said Trump's defense team can't say they have "particular knowledge of the facts stated In the question."
"We know there was a public report suggesting connections and prior working relationships between certain people, not something I can comment on other than to say that there's a report there. We don't know what the IC IG discussed. We don't know what the IC IG was told by the whistleblower, other reports about inaccuracies in the whistleblower's report to the IC IG. We don't know the testimony on that" he explained. "We don't know the situation of the contacts' coordination provided by Manager Schiff's staff to the whistleblower. It all remains unknown."
"It's obviously something that, to get to the bottom of motivations, bias, how this inquiry was created, could potentially be relevant," he said.
Patrick Philbin: reports of contact between the whistleblower and Schiff’s staff are “shrouded in secrecy.” VIDEO 1:41min. https://youtu.be/JN3hzQc239M
Tear Schiffty a new one. Ed Buck would approve.
Does Philbin live in Virginia and can we persuade him to run for the Senate?
Don’t know but I hear you. :)
I didn’t hear this exchange by Philbin, but I heard him on Saturday and thought he was excellent.
Is this the same question Schiff completely ignored and went on a diatribe about how noble his staff is? I’m sure a few of the halfwits sitting in senator chairs noted Schiff all but completely avoided answering the question, but where is the push back? Seems the chief justice should be reminding Schiff he did not answer the question.
Is not withholding relevant evidence a crime (obstruction)? I know its Congress and not a courtroom, but it would seem logical that the same standard should be applied. The ‘Rats in the House would never allow a case to be brought against Schiff and the others involved as a matter of Congress, so some kind of criminal complaint and referral to an appropriate authority in the DoJ would have to be made. Can such be done against Congresspersons?
I’m no lawyer but it’s pretty well accepted that Schiff has lied his rear end off about the WB and his contact with him.
IC IG Atkinson is the 18th witness the House Dems questioned in secret and haven’t turned over any of the testimony as I understand it.
Let’s keep this FReepathon moving and wrap it up early, Folks!
Philbin is everything you’d want in a lawyer-——vastly knowledgeable, professional......and calm cool and collected.
The left is so worthless at everything they do even in trying to be leftists and trying to destroy the right.
This whole thing was a put-up job. When the Mueller investigation whiffed, Schifty told Nan not to worry, he could manufacture new grounds for impeachment. And he has done just that.
Excellent, Bump!
Schiff and House managers used the WWE technique of rope-a-dope and tag team democrat responders whose answers were as authentic and believable as the WWE itself.
Philbin on the other hand handled practically every question on his own with some help from Dershowitz from time to time.
Philbin should be on the list for next Supreme Court justice.
He found out about corruption in Ukraine and blew the whistle on it.
He should be hailed as a hero instead of being railroaded.
Great idea.......Justice Philbin.
Let’s tell Trump.
bttt
I couldn’t agree more.
I predict that Patrick Philbin’s legal services will be in VERY high demand in the future!
He is, in a word, OUTSTANDING!
Mr. Philbin’s future is assured!
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