How Adam Schiff secretly thwarted efforts to bring transparency in Russia probe

justthenews.com ^ | 04.20.2020 | John Solomon

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How Adam Schiff secretly thwarted efforts to bring transparency in Russia probe

Democrat demanded DNI keep evidence from Trump, holds transcripts that were supposed to be made public.

In late September 2018 with a mid-year election approaching, the often bitterly divided House Intelligence Committee forged a rare bipartisan moment: Its Republican and Democratic members voted to make public the transcripts of 53 witnesses in the Russia collusion investigation.

But what was hailed as an act of transparency has not been fulfilled 19 months later, even though U.S intelligence has declassified and cleared the transcripts for release.

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Shortly after Schiff took over from Republican Rep. Devin Nunes as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) in 2019, he sent a letter to the office of then-Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.

The letter obtained by Just the News specifically ordered that the witness transcripts — some of which contained exculpatory evidence for President Trump’s team — not be shared with Trump or White House lawyers even if the declassification process required such sharing.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Wait! Wait! The WashPo AND the NYTimes are even as we speak rushin’ to break this story and get their next Pulitzer Prize for the ABCNNBCBS comrades.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Democrat demanded DNI keep evidence from Trump, holds transcripts that were supposed to be made public.
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Dan Coates did not have to comply.

[Liz]

Shortly after Schiff took over as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) in 2019,
the cunning, politically ambitious Schiff sent a letter to the office of then-Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats.

Schiff's letter (obtained by Just the News) specifically ordered that transcripts of witnesses before his secret hearings —
not be shared with Trump or White House lawyers even if the declassification process required such sharing.

The beastly, despotic Schiff did not want the transcripts made public .....
particularly because some material contained exculpatory evidence for President Trump’s team.

[NormsRevenge]

CONgre$$pimple removed from office over clear evidence of Obstruction of Justice

a headline you’ll never see.

[neverevergiveup]

Politicians; can’t live with ‘em, can’t live with ‘em.

[Alberta's Child]

That’s why Coates is gone. That’s also why Rep. John Ratcliffe — who was sitting in on those secret hearings in Schiff’s dungeon while all those witnesses were being interviewed — has been nominated to the DNI post.

[JoSixChip]

Adam Schiff specifically ordered then-Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats

The DNI works for Trump, not schifty.

[DarthVader]

Schitt and all his treasonous cronies are starting to get a clue from this article that they have been being watched and that their goose is cooked. It is great fun to catch traitors in the act!

[Liz]

Schiff had literally no impeachment case, so he decided to create a "surveillance state" apparat...like they do in the Third world.

He issued secret subpoenas to publicly-held phone companies for private data on Trump's political opponents....

In effect, like a tinpot dictator, Schiff ransacked the private lives of innocent people.

Much to his delight, Schiff’s subpoenas resulted in getting his filthy hands on over 4,000 pages of confidential phone records,
irregardless of violating phone carrier customers’ rights to data privacy.

Schiff's objective was to obtain innocent conversations calls of Trump’s allies, sensationalize them, and publish them.

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Trump should have been lone gone by now....impeached and relegated to persona non grata.....Democraps beaming at the top of the heap.

None of this was intended to see the light of day.

Now FCC Top Gun, Commissioner Carr, is looking at the damage Schiff wrought. He's proposing a $200 million fine against phone carriers
for failing to protect their customers who have a legitimate expectation of privacy.

That's just for starters.

[Taxman]

How much more information do We the People need to get that Schiffty Schiff is EVIL!

His LIEs, his illegal, America/Constitution/Liberty/FReedom hating activities while impeaching President Trump MUST become a HUGE teaching moment for EVERY American!

The lesson is this:

NEVER!

EVER!

ELECT!

ANOTHER!

DEMOCRAT!

[Lurkinanloomin]

Obviously not at that time.

[Vaduz]

Going to be a lot of folks doing cell time the sooner the better before the election.
The more truths about the democrats the better.

[Liz]

Sick Puppies--Pelosi, Schiff, impeachment managers
townhall.com ^ | February 1, 2020 | Congressman Andy Biggs / FR Posted by Kaslin

It appears that self-aggrandizement was a dominant factor after all. Chairman Nadler could not have been happy when Speaker Pelosi entrusted the impeachment charade to the mendacious Adam Schiff, a position normally entrusted to Judiciary Committee Chairman.

Seeing the two vie for the last word was a moment of inadvertently produced levity. But it also indicated, in part, the motivation to run through the tape was the desire to attain a measure of notoriety within the Leftist base now controlling the Democrat Party.

It also demonstrates the continued delusion of the House managers who believe that if they talk everyone to death, using boring soliloquies that feature a repetition of the same talking points that were worn out months ago, they will convince enough senators to vote to expand the Senate trial. Then they would get to drag this charade out even longer.

For the House managers, they believe that if they say their mistruths often enough, (sometimes loud, sometimes soft, sometimes with a smile, sometimes with a snarl), these mistruths will become true. Or at least, accepted as truth. The objective truth, however, ultimately wins out. And the truth here is that there simply is no there-there. There never has been.

These folks did not ever want Donald J. Trump to be president. They want him off of the 2020 ballot. They are willing to do, say, and ultimately, believe anything, no matter how implausible, if it might lead to removal of President Trump from his duly elected office. They put their faith in Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his gang of biased, anti-Trump prosecutors who spent years and millions of taxpayer dollars looking for dirt on the president.

They were disappointed when even Mueller had to acknowledge that there was no criminal conspiracy between the Russians and the Trump campaign.

Schiff, Nadler, Pelosi, and their acolytes, however, believe that there is concrete evidence of a conspiracy, and that one day they may be able to produce it. Except they will never succeed for the simple reason that there was no coordination, no cooperation, no collusion, and no conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians.

Instead of dreamily chasing after their socialist utopia, this bunch forced the entire nation into their nightmarish pursuit of revenge and disruption.

Their intent all along, after all, is to undo the 2016 election. They want to turn back time.

And, with the majority of senators seeing the best that the Democrat House managers could present, the senators have rejected an extension of this malevolent marathon of vituperation toward the president.

The House managers have been passionate about their work. And as sincere about their motives to “save the country” as a Don Lemon apology.

From mid-summer 2016 and over the past three years, the deep state, Leftist media, and radical Democrats have done nothing to help this nation. Instead, they have relentlessly attacked this president, his family, his friends and business associates, his supporters, and his voters. While the president has been improving the judiciary, the economy, our military, and American prestige at home and abroad, the vociferous malcontents in the Democratic Party have tried to undermine his efforts and the will of the American people.

As President Trump might say, “They are sick puppies.”

[DaiHuy]

“Going to be a lot of folks doing cell time...”

The quote Waylon Jennings,

“I’ll believe it when I see it, and I haven’t seen it yet. Don’t mind me just keep on talking I’m just looking for my hat”

[volunbeer]

Dan Coates did not have to comply.

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I might not be understanding your point here, but if it is the work-product of the committee does not the committee maintain control of the transcripts? The DNI role was only to make the redactions for classified material.

There is one thing for certain with Adam Schiff. He will hide anything beneficial to Trump and leak anything he can twist to make Trump look bad. He is dishonest.

They will hide this again until after the election. Nunes, Gowdy, Jordan, Gaetz, and others who are familiar with the testimony have hinted numerous times that there are some glaring contradictions contained therein.

[Vaduz]

The wheels of grind slowly but they do grind.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The committee had voted to declassify and release, Schiff told Coates not to release it, publicly or even to the President and his team.

[shanover]

I am sure the POS is working on his next impeachment: Corona:Trump knew,Trump did nothing, people died and economy a mess all Trump’s fault.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

“Dan Coates did not have to comply.”

There’s a reason he’s gone. Hopefully Rick Grennel will be on this.