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Schiff reveals new whistleblower complaint alleging suppression of Russian election interference intel reports [facepalm alert]
Fox News ^ | 09/09/2020 | Brooke Singman

Posted on 09/09/2020 10:48:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai

The House Intelligence Committee received a whistleblower complaint claiming Trump administration officials at the White House and the Department of Homeland Security suppressed intelligence reports related to Russian election interference, Democratic Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said Wednesday.

In a statement, Schiff said former Intelligence and Analysis Acting Under Secretary Brian Murphy filed the whistleblower reprisal complaint on Tuesday with the DHS Office of Inspector General.

“We’ve received a whistleblower complaint alleging DHS suppressed intel reports on Russian election interference, altered intel to match false Trump claims and made false statements to Congress,” Schiff, D-Calif., tweeted Wednesday afternoon. “This puts our national security at risk.”

He added: “We will investigate.”

A spokesman for DHS fired back Wednesday: “The Department generally does not comment on the specifics of OIG referrals, but we flatly deny that there is any truth to the merits of Mr. Murphy’s claim,” the spokesman, Alexei Woltornist, said. “DHS looks forward to the results of any resulting investigation and we expect it will conclude that no retaliatory action was taken against Mr. Murphy.” …

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TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: dogreturnstovomit; fakenews; fakewhistleblower; russiarussiarussia; schiff; schiffshow; tds; whydoeshebother
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To: Russ
Fox News is all too happy to glom onto these fake stories and ride them for days without let up.

I happened to watch Brett Baier and Jennifer Griffin pushing the Atlantic's fake article. Disgusting...

21 posted on 09/10/2020 5:04:32 AM PDT by EVO X
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To: Bobalu

“I think it is Trump who has the dirt on all of them!

The storm is nearly upon US.”

If I were in President Trump’s shoes, I’d collect all the dirt that the office of the president would give me access to collecting. If I lost this election, everyone knowing the Dems cheat their butts off, I would release it all, but in drips and drabs so as to be sure to get maximum play out if it. Ruin some Dem careers, maybe a few lives.


22 posted on 09/10/2020 5:31:24 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Olog-hai

The Democrats want to be in full “investigation” mode during the election. There will be non-stop “hearings” to dominate the news cycles. Also, those will be the questions debate moderators with ask the President so they can deflect attention away from Biden.


23 posted on 09/10/2020 6:56:52 AM PDT by JWNM
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To: Olog-hai
Whistle blowers everywhere. 🤔
24 posted on 09/10/2020 8:00:48 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

And Schiff will protect them all . . .


25 posted on 09/10/2020 11:45:59 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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