After all, he was the chair of the House Intelligence Committee and assured the public that our criticisms were meritless and the dossier was corroborated. Schiff was the main voice swatting down such criticism and his endorsements were treated as dispositive for media from MSNBC to the Washington Post. Some of us have spent years being pummeled for questioning the obvious problems with the Steele dossier, including the long-denied connection to the Clinton campaign. Schiff’s spin is enough to cause permanent vertigo. But I don’t think there ought to be any pardon, no matter which way the lies cut.” There ought to be the same standard in terms of prosecuting the liars.

And I’ll tell you this, if he’s convicted, he should not be pardoned the way Donald Trump pardoned people who lied to FBI agents, like Roger Stone and Mike Flynn. Danchenko lied to Christopher Steele and then lied to the FBI. And we couldn’t have known, of course, years ago that we would learn years later that someone who is a primary source lied to him. “I don’t regret saying that we should investigate claims of someone who, frankly, was a well-respected British intelligence officer. However, Schiff recently has attempted to defend himself by claiming that Steele was a respected former spy and that he was lied to by a Russian source. Schiff was one of the greatest promoters of the Steele dossier despite access to briefings casting doubt about Steele and the underlying claims. Schiff’s interview on NBC’s Meet the Press may be the final proof of the death of shame in American politics. While even the Washington Post has admitted that it got the Russian collusion story wrong in light of the findings of Special Counsel John Durham, House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is still insisting that he was absolutely right to promote the discredited Steele dossier.

In the age of rage, there appear fewer and fewer actions that are beyond the pale for politics. He deserves scorn.The famous philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal once declared that “the only shame is to have none.” The problem with shame is that it requires a sense of guilt over one’s actions. Watch how he worms his way around to avoid even an iota of mea culpa Īdam Schiff has done far more to divide America than Trump ever did or ever will. He lied about the 'smoking gun' evidence he saw (that Mueller never found). He read it into the Congressional Record. He spent years promoting the Steele Dossier. Look at what an amoral sociopath Adam Schiff is. This guy kept claiming collusion even after Mueller found no collusion, so I’m not sure he’s in a position to lecture others about lies related to this saga. How fitting that Schiff's toughest media scrutiny comes from The View: US media treated him as a brave truth seeker when in reality he constantly lied & deceived. Schiff claimed to have evidence of Trump-Russia collusion & read the Steele dossier into the Congressional record. Remember all the times he claimed he had evidence? Morgan Ortagus confronts Adam Schiff about the Steele dossier 👀 #TheView /Lhtow0o6QE I think just your credibility is,” Ortagus said. None of that serious misconduct is in any way diminished by the fact that people lied to Christopher Steele,” Schiff said. Schiff then accused Ortagus and Republicans of trying to use the Steele dossier’s lack of credibility “as a smokescreen to somehow shield Donald Trump’s culpability.” Ortagus pressed Schiff further and landed a major punch at the end. Schiff avoided directly answering the question, and instead called on “whoever lied” to former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele or the FBI to be prosecuted. Do you have any reflections on your role in promoting this to the American people?” Ortagus asked Schiff.

We know last week the main source of the dossier was indicted by the FBI for lying about most of the key claims in that dossier. “You defended, promoted and even read into the congressional record the Steele dossier.

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