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发帖数: 2018 | 1 http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-curious-case-of-adam-schiff-1516666197
Has there ever been a more incurious congressman than Adam Schiff ?
The California Democrat serves as ranking member of the House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence, a powerful oversight panel. Recently this
committee succeeded in wresting key documents from the Justice Department
and FBI after months of being stonewalled, and Republican staffers have
summarized the info in a classified four-page memo. Those who have read the
memo say it includes evidence of abuses by Justice and FBI officials
handling the investigation into Donald Trump’s alleged ties with Russia,
most salaciously summed up in the infamous Steele dossier named for the
former British spy who compiled it.
But whether it’s material submitted to the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court for a warrant on a Trump campaign official or
conveniently missing texts between an FBI agent and his FBI mistress—who
both hated Mr. Trump and would each serve on the special counsel’s team—Mr
. Schiff exhibits no interest. Saturday on CNN he implied that the only ones
who are interested are Russian bots on Twitter .
When CNN’s Ana Cabrera asked him why not let the American people see the
info and decide for themselves, Mr. Schiff went full Jack Nicholson : “The
American people, unfortunately, don’t have the underlying materials and
therefore they can’t see how distorted and misleading this document is,”
he answered. Translation: The American people can’t handle the truth.
It makes no sense. If the American people lack context, that’s an argument
for more disclosure, not less. But it fits a pattern. Mr. Schiff tells us
there is “more than circumstantial evidence” of collusion between the
Trump campaign and Moscow. But he never produces it.
To put it another way, Mr. Schiff appears to be the only man in America who
doesn’t seem to want to know whether the material in the Steele dossier is
true or not. All along he has stood against getting relevant information—
fighting subpoenas for Justice, fighting subpoenas for the FBI, and fighting
the subpoena for the bank records of Fusion GPS (which ultimately prompted
the admission that the Clinton campaign had helped fund the Steele dossier).
Last week offered a good example of the Schiff standard in operation.
Democrats wanted the House testimony of Fusion co-founder Glenn Simpson made
public, and Republicans on the Intel committee joined them to vote in favor
of releasing it. But when it came to making the classified memo available
to any congressman who wished to read it, Republicans alone stood for
transparency. Every Democrat, led by Mr. Schiff, voted to keep the memo
secret.
On the Saturday following this vote, the chairmen of three key House
oversight committees— Devin Nunes (Intel), Bob Goodlatte (Judiciary) and
Trey Gowdy (Oversight)—met to discuss the way forward. They released no
statement. But as more of their members see the memo, the rumbling to make
the information public will only grow.
Meanwhile, even Democrats not on the Intel Committee have been infected by
the same lack of curiosity that afflicts Mr. Schiff. In the few days since
the memo became available to every member of the House, roughly 190
Republicans have read it, compared with only a dozen Democrats.
Congress—especially the oversight committees—is supposed to act as the
people’s watchdog. Mr. Trump is routinely slammed for his indifference to
reading, especially the endless memos and policy papers that find their way
onto a president’s desk. But what does it say when the ranking member of a
vital oversight committee appears uninterested in what his committee has
unearthed about a matter that speaks to the integrity of our highest
institutions of law enforcement?
The Beltway standard for comparison for scandal today is Watergate. It’s
now been nearly five decades since men affiliated with Richard Nixon’s
Committee for the Re-Election of the President were nabbed while breaking
into Democratic headquarters at the Watergate complex. The purpose of the
break-in was to plant a bug and gain embarrassing intel on the Democratic
Party and its presidential candidate, George McGovern.
If Mr. Trump and his team worked with Vladimir Putin to steal the 2016
election from Hillary Clinton, it would indeed be as scandalous as Watergate
. But it would be just as scandalous if a Democratic administration’s
Justice Department and FBI used unsubstantiated opposition research—parts
of which were quite possibly drawn from Russian disinformation—to obtain
warrants to spy on members of a Republican presidential campaign.
In 1972, Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the break-in as a “
third-rate burglary.” Today Mr. Schiff routinely dismisses the House Intel
Committee findings about Justice and the FBI’s handling of the Steele
dossier as “a profound distraction”—while he too fights an investigation
into a presidential election. Could that be why he’s so opposed to letting
the American people see what he’s seen? | R*****g
发帖数: 1649 | 2 outrageous corruption.
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: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-curious-case-of-adam-schiff-1516666197
: Has there ever been a more incurious congressman than Adam Schiff ?
: The California Democrat serves as ranking member of the House Permanent
: Select Committee on Intelligence, a powerful oversight panel. Recently this
: committee succeeded in wresting key documents from the Justice Department
: and FBI after months of being stonewalled, and Republican staffers have
: summarized the info in a classified four-page memo. Those who have read the
: memo say it includes evidence of abuses by Justice and FBI officials
: handling the investigation into Donald Trump’s alleged ties with Russia,
: most salaciously summed up in the infamous Steele dossier named for the
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发帖数: 2018 | 3 这个太监脸稀福看着就欠扇。Tucker小哥一年前就扇他了。
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