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Schiff: 'We couldn't have known' about lies behind Steele dossier
Fox News ^ | Nov 10, 2021 | Tyler O'Neil

Posted on 11/11/2021 5:22:05 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, defended his longtime promotion of the now-discredited Steele dossier by claiming that his team "couldn't have known" that Igor Danchenko, the Russian analyst believed to have been the dossier's sub-source, had allegedly lied to former British spy Christopher Steele.

"Well, first of all, whoever lied to the FBI or lied to Christopher Steele should be prosecuted, and they are," Schiff said on "The View" Tuesday.

"But at the beginning of the Russia investigation, I said that any allegations should be investigated," he continued. "We couldn't have known, for example, people were lying to Christopher Steele.".....

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper had told Schiff and his colleagues, "I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in it was plotting/conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; US: California
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Head of the Committee on Intelligence and didn’t know any of this was happening...


21 posted on 11/11/2021 5:37:16 AM PST by struggle
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The lies were obvious, Schiff is a coup plotter.


22 posted on 11/11/2021 5:37:32 AM PST by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: SmokingJoe

OMG it is truly amazing how stupid these people think we are, this LYING POS heads up the intel committee SPIT!!!


23 posted on 11/11/2021 5:38:18 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Didn’t he repeatedly claim that he had irrefutable proof of Trump-Russian collusion? Yet never produced such evidence.


24 posted on 11/11/2021 5:39:28 AM PST by sjmjax
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To: bert

“Why is this treasonous coup instigator still alive?
As an enemy of the Republic who continues to plot he should be dead”

Because our side doesn’t play that way.


25 posted on 11/11/2021 5:39:47 AM PST by farmguy
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

If he “couldn’t have known”, then please explain why he went before every TV camera he could find and pushed the false narrative as if it was a known fact?


26 posted on 11/11/2021 5:40:18 AM PST by systemjim (Lifetime Lover of Music)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

First off, I’m not sure that lying to the FBI is necessarily illegal, except in certain sworn situations. Second, lying to Christopher Steele? Who the hell is he to be in jeopardy over?

In reality, any of the parties associated with this hoax — including Schiff — should have much more to worry about than lying to anyone. Especially members of the FBI who helped perpetrate this treasonous monstrosity.


27 posted on 11/11/2021 5:40:33 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Every single one of these people, Schiff included, dozens and dozens of them, were asked by the committee while under oath if they had any proof whatsoever that Donald Trump or any of his associates had broken any law or engaged in illegality, they all said “No.”

All of them. Every single one of them. Every one.

Then, as soon as they left the closed hearings, they (And most egregiously Schiff) would get in front of a camera and tell the world that what they knew as fact was far worse than they were allowed to say.

I cannot say what I think should happen to that human stain, Schiff.


28 posted on 11/11/2021 5:41:37 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Lying saa sack of offal.


29 posted on 11/11/2021 5:41:46 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Bkmk


30 posted on 11/11/2021 5:42:23 AM PST by sit-rep ( )
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Liar. We all knew. The ‘conspiracy theorists’ were right again.

This news coming out “officially” .....too late. Damage was done.


31 posted on 11/11/2021 5:43:08 AM PST by xenia ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Truth be told, I am a little shocked this whole fiasco is coming to light. I thought for sure it would be buried forevermore...


32 posted on 11/11/2021 5:45:07 AM PST by sit-rep ( )
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To: Red Badger
They all lied.
They all knew it was a bogus dossier full of democrat fantasies.
They did not care one whit because they knew there would be absolutely no repercussions for them if they ever got caught!.................,


Agreed. The whole Trump-Russian conspiracy hoax was premised on two things: Trump staging the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in 2013, and his exploration of building a hotel there, which never happened. Trump likely understood that, as a foreigner in a corrupt oligarchic state, doing business in Russia wasn't a smart move. From these two small grains of truth, an entire propaganda campaign was built that Trump was controlled by Putin and promoted by a corrupt corporate media.
33 posted on 11/11/2021 5:45:50 AM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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Schiff: 'We couldn't have known' about lies behind Steele dossier.


34 posted on 11/11/2021 5:47:53 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

It’s not that they think we are stupid, its that they think we are weak and powerless.


35 posted on 11/11/2021 5:47:59 AM PST by TTFlyer (Vote harder, sucker. Yeah, that's the ticket. ..)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Schiff, that is a lie right there. It was your job.


36 posted on 11/11/2021 5:48:54 AM PST by healy61
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Schiff lied and now even idiots realize it.


37 posted on 11/11/2021 5:49:31 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: farmguy

And, our side has lost. There is a new game and we don’t know how to play

When there is no law, there is no law

Pretending the law works is a losing strategy


38 posted on 11/11/2021 5:50:52 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Free Republic has gone to hell is a Covid handbasket)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Is he saying he is clueless? ... What a non-surprise


39 posted on 11/11/2021 5:52:46 AM PST by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Next stop will be explaining how the 0bama “by the book” meeting was just a “misunderstanding”.
Just imagine what the landscape would look like if conservatives behaved like BLM and AntiFa.


40 posted on 11/11/2021 5:56:24 AM PST by Honest Nigerian
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