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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Head of the Committee on Intelligence and didn’t know any of this was happening...
The lies were obvious, Schiff is a coup plotter.
OMG it is truly amazing how stupid these people think we are, this LYING POS heads up the intel committee SPIT!!!
Didn’t he repeatedly claim that he had irrefutable proof of Trump-Russian collusion? Yet never produced such evidence.
“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.
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?
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.
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.
Lying saa sack of offal.
Bkmk
Liar. We all knew. The ‘conspiracy theorists’ were right again.
This news coming out “officially” .....too late. Damage was done.
Truth be told, I am a little shocked this whole fiasco is coming to light. I thought for sure it would be buried forevermore...
It’s not that they think we are stupid, its that they think we are weak and powerless.
Schiff, that is a lie right there. It was your job.
Schiff lied and now even idiots realize it.
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
Is he saying he is clueless? ... What a non-surprise
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.
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