Thursday, October 3, 2019

Schiff May Have Oversold Whistleblower’s Testimony

Schiff May Have Oversold Whistleblower’s Testimony

Schiff May Have Oversold Whistleblower’s Testimony
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In trying to sell impeachment to the American public, Comgressman Adam Schiff may have just committed a huge error.

This would be on par with Schiff insisting that HE JUST KNEW there was information that was going to take President Trump down that was contained in the Mueller Report. Well, not so much, as it turned out.
However, because Schiff is no stranger to simply making crap up when it suits him, he made this statement to Scott Pelley on “60 Minutes” on Sunday evening.
Democrat Adam Schiff is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, in charge of the investigation.”
Scott Pelley: Where does your committee take this from here? What’s the procedure?”
Adam Schiff: Well, we have a pretty good roadmap– thanks to the courage of this whistleblower. The complaint sets out any number of witnesses, any number of documents that we need to seek.”
Scott Pelley: Do you expect the testimony of the whistleblower?”
Adam Schiff: Absolutely.”
Scott Pelley: Your committee already has an agreement with the whistleblower that he will testify?”
Adam Schiff: We have an agreement that he or she will testify, yes.”
Well, that was news to the whistleblower’s legal counsel. They posted a note on their website immediately after the Schiff interview aired that said “wait, no we haven’t said it’s happening and there is no agreement yet.”

Is anyone surprised that Schiff is jumping the gun and promising stuff that he can’t deliver? Hmmm, this sounds so familiar! And news outlets are leading with Schiff’s promise, not the comments from the whistleblower’s legal counsel. I wonder why? It’s MUCH less sexy and exciting to say “well, the lawyers are negotiating about testimony,” especially after Schiff just LIED on national television about a deal already being in place!
Or… is this just one of those magical things that Adam Schiff knows before everyone else?

This tweet is essentially the entire whistleblower complaint. The date is August 28th. But Congress wasn’t notified about the whistleblower complaint report until September 9th. The IG didn’t even talk to acting DNI Joseph Maguire about the whistleblower complaint until August 26th. So, either Schiff should be picking lottery numbers, or he got a heads-up about the entire whistleblower complaint. Surprise, it looks like it’s door #2, where the whistleblower may have just been too impatient to let the process play out, and notified Schiff, and Senator Richard Burr, in their roles as chairmen of the Intelligence committees, that “HEY I SENT A COMPLAINT TO YOUR MANAGER, DID YOU SEE IT???”

Schiff then leaked out what he knew over Twitter, and started lining his ducks up in a row for his moment of improv committee acting – something that has really annoyed Republicans in the House to the point that they want to censure him.

And now he’s promising testimony from the whistleblower – something that hasn’t been agreed to yet at all. But “60 Minutes” is completely okay with pushing that line, plus the one that “the whistleblower is under federal protection.” Again, the legal team is saying “wait, what?”

So, Adam Schiff is again overselling what he actually has in hand at the moment, and “60 Minutes” is helping that narrative along. Awesome. I’m sure that this is all just a honest misreading of the letters from the legal team to make things seem more dire than they really are at the moment. *cough* After all, when has Adam Schiff, improv actor extraordinare, ever stretched the truth?
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