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probably a couple of weeks ago, now, had a discussion
with Mike. He calls pretty frequently. He's and I've known
Mike for years. He was he's a lawyer in town here.
He's a Democrat, he's run for office, Democrat party official
for a while, and he was arguing with me over
the term the Russian collusion hoax. You remember this. If
you haven't, you should go back and listen to the podcast.
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So okay, so just keep that in mind. He was
beefing with the term Russian collusion hoax. I'm not going
to rehash the argument I was right, he was wrong.
That's the short version. And so here's a story by
John Solomon over at Justthnews dot com. We have a
new development. Although I knew I mean old information, but
now we know it. Here's the story a career intelligence
officer who worked for the Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee,
which is also referred to as HIPSI, which is the
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence HPSCI. And so you'll
here referred to as House Intelligence Committee, the Intel Committee,
or HIPSIE. So this intelligence officer who worked for the
Democrats because you got you know, members of Congress who
are Republicans, who are Democrats, and then you've got intel
officers that work with these members of how of the
House on this committee. And he worked for more than
a decade for the Democrats on HIPSIE. And he repeatedly
warned the FBI beginning in twoenty seventeen. So during the
first year of Trump's first term, right, he was warning
the FBI that then Representative Adam Schiff for Brains had
approved leaking classified information to smear then President Donald Trump
over the now debunked Russia Gates scandal, an Intel agent
telling the FBI right out of the gate that Adam
Schiff had approved leaking leaking classified information and doing so
with the intent to smear Trump. He told them this
in twenty seventeen. I mean, little did he know that.
All the way up the chain of command, which are
police chief in Washington, DC doesn't know what that means.
But all the way up the chain of command in
the FBI, they were all on board with the smear.
So I assume that's why it never went anywhere. These
are called three O two interviews. I guess it's a
form that they fill out called the three O two
the FBI three O two interview, and the reports from
these interviews have been obtained by just thenews dot org
and this the report states that the Intel staffer, who
is a Democrat by party affiliation, and described himself as
a friend to both Shiff now the California US Senator.
He said he described himself as a friend to both
Shift and to the Republican House Intelligence Chairman Devin Newness,
so he got along with both of them. He's a
registered Democrat, but he's like I was friends with both
of them, and he said that he considered the classified
leaking to be quote unethical, illegal, and quote treasonous, but
he was told not to worry about it because Schiff
believed that he would be spared prosecution under the Constitution's
Speech and Debate clause. What is that about. This is
the clause that allows cowards to go to the floor
of the Senate or the House and make a speech
and say whatever they want and never be sued for slander.
They could say whatever they want on the floor. If
they say this stuff outside of these speeches from the floor,
then they can be sued. So and by the way,
there's no legal rulings or anything like that to test
the extent of this as it regards to classified leaking.
But Shiff says, it's fine, don't worry. I got immunity.
I can leak classified information. Think about that. This guy
said he can leak this because I have protection when
I'm speaking from the floor. This is such a bizarre excuse.
And by the way, the stafford did not believe this.
No publicly disclosed opinion from the Attorney General or the
Solicitor General can be found making that determination as a
matter of law. But officials told Just the News that
DOJ officials showed little to zero interest in pursuing shift
when the allegations were brought to them years ago, and
they cited the very same excuse that Schiff offered. Quote.
When working in this capacity, the staffer was called to
an all staff meeting by Shiff. In this meeting, Schiff
stated the group would leak classified information which was derogatory
to the President of the United States Donald J. Trump.
Schiff stated the information would be used to indict President Trump. Well,
there is your smoking gun. He literally called a staff
meeting and said we're going to leak this stuff and
the purposes to get Trump indicted. The whistleblower told investigators.
Remember here, it doesn't matter if Trump would be found
guilty or not. The point was the indictment, which is
how you explain all of the indictments we saw. After
Trump got out of office, right, they continued this same strategy.
Why so they got to beat the drum and say
indicted forty eight times, convicted felon. They get to say
all of this and it didn't even matter. That's the
irony here, is like they spent all this time and
effort and taxpayer money, not only besmirching their own reputations
and such, but actually elevating Donald Trump to the point
where he carried every swing state. People saw what was
being done to him and they were like, yeah, no,
this is not good. This is not cool. The whistleblower
told investigators that he stated this would be illegal. You
can't do this, guys, that's what the staffer said. Upon
hearing his concerns, Unnamed members at the meeting reassured him
that they would not be caught leaking c classified information.
So that's the that's their response, Like, guys, guys, we
should not be doing this. You can't be leaking classified information.
Number one, number two, you really can't be doing it
just to try to get a guy you don't like
politically indicted. And their response was, don't worry, We're not
gonna get caught, which isn't That doesn't go to his concern.
His concern is that it's illegal, but in their mind,
it's not illegal if you don't get caught. It's sort
of like the Costanza rule about lying George Costanza from
the documentary series Seinfeld, Right, it's not a lie if
you believe it, it's not illegal. If you don't get caught.
The staffer made similar claims to agents in the FBI's
Washington Field office as early as twenty seventeen, shortly after
Trump took office for his first term. Shift Surprise Surprise
has not returned calls for comment on this. The alleged
leaks fall outside the statute of limitations for prosecution, so
it appears Shift for Brains is going to skate on
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on this exclusive story that a Democrat whistleblower told the
FBI that Adam Schiff had okayed leaking classified intel specifically
to hurt Donald Trump. Some of the DOJ officials who
declined to prosecute the leaking the rash of classified leaks
during the Russia Gate affair still remain employed in positions
of power, Solomon reports. Cash Bettel said, quote for years,
certain officials used their positions to selectively leak classified information
to shape political narratives. It was all done with one purpose,
to weaponize intelligence and law enforcement for political gain. Those
abuses eroded public trust in our institutions. Schiff previously served
as the ranking member and then the chairman of the
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence or Hipsy HPSCI Hipsy.
Before he ascended to the US Senate, he pushed false
allegations of Trump Russia collusion for many years. See that
right there is why I call it the Russia collusion hoax,
because it was a hoax that they were perpetrating. That
guys like Schiff and also Swallwell, former paramour of Fangfang,
that they pushed that Trump was colluding with Russia. Russia
was colluding with Trump, but that was a hoax. So
the Russia collusion hoax. Okay, That's why I call it that.
He also was touting the Steele dossier, the discredited Steele dossier,
even reading multiple baseless claims from it into the congressional
record in March of twenty seventeen. The whistleblower began approaching
the FBI in that same year, twenty seventeen. In one meeting,
this Democratic HIPSI staffer, this intelligence officer, registered Democrat, worked
for the Democrats. He told the FBI that retired Lieutenant
General Mike Flynn, who was Trump's first national security advisor.
He told the FBI that Flynn was going to be
a specific focus of the committee as part of a
broader effort to target Trump, which is interesting. I guess
that the officer I don't know what intelligence agency he
worked in, but apparently not the FBI, but maybe. But
he goes to the FBI and he's like, guys, they're
looking to target Mike Flynn. They're going after Mike Flynn.
They're leaking classified information. And the FBI is like, okay,
good to know. Yes, we'll take it under advisement and
we'll check into it. Meanwhile, the FBI did what they
sent agents to Mike Flynn and got him in a
perjury trap, right because Mike Flynn thought that this was
just a meet and greet, like hey, you're the new
national security advisor. We're in the FBI, just want to
drop in, say hey, we're in the Washington Field office whatever.
And they start chatting and then Flynn tells them something
about like oh no, I didn't have that phone call.
We talked about something else or whatever, and then they
were like got him. And Flynn never knew that he
was being interrogated, that this was some sort of like
criminal investigation. But this hipsy, this committee staffer, intelligence officer, Democrat,
he knew what was going on, and he alerted the
FBI like, hey, head's up. The FBI was like, yeah, sure,
no problem, Yet we already talked to him. We're already
nailing him. The whistleblower also specifically pointed to Representative Eric Swalwell,
Democrat from Fangfeng, as a likely source of classified leaks.
According to the FBI three h two report, this staffer
also allegedly told a former Republican colleague on the committee
that he was fired. He was terminated because Schiff's staff
did not believe that he had adequate quote unquote party
loyalty after he raised concerns about the leak's strategy. Well,
I thought only Donald Trump aka Orange Hitler. I thought
Donald Trump was the only one who valued that kind
of loyalty and would exact revenge on people who were
insufficiently loyal. Every allegation is a confession with these people.
The whistleblower was interviewed not once but twice in twenty seventeen,
and then four more times over six years. This guy
gave six interviews over the course of six or seven
years about the leaks from Shifth, but the Justice Department
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dot com reporting that a Democratic whistleblower intel officer Democrat
who served with the Democrats on the House Permanent Select
Committee told the FBI in December twenty seventeen during an
interview at his home that the House Permanent Select Committee
on Intelligence the hipsy work environment started to change around
August of twenty sixteen as the election approached. Clinton Trump election,
Democratic staffers revealed that they leaked during a September twenty
sixteen staff meeting, so two months month and a half
before the election, the staffers on the House Permanent Select
Committee that were Democrat staffers for the Democrat members, they
talked about how they were taking classified information to the media.
The whistleblower told the FBI in December twenty seventeen that
the HIPSI minority the Democrats viewed the twenty sixteen election
and it's aftermath as a constitutional crisis, and that by
February of twenty seventeen, after Trump took office. Quote, all
hell broke loose. I was saying it at the time.
Now I was not here at WBT, I was working
up in Asheville, but I was saying it at the time.
I continued to say it because the left has still
not changed their hyperbolic catastrophism on Trump, that you know
this is the end of the democracy, and that this
is a constitutional crisis, and he's literally Hitler like all
of these that beyond the pale accusations, it gives you
a permission structure to do any thing. And this is
precisely what I'm talking about. I guess I should leak
classified information, whether it's true or not. But I guess
I should leak it because I'm trying to save the democracy. Right,
I'm trying to save the republic. I'm just kidding. Democrats
would never call it the republic, but that anything becomes
permission permissible. The Democratic minority leadership, by the way, the
same thing they do the same thing with global warming,
sorry climate change, right, they do the same thing with that.
They do the same thing with education funding. They do
the same thing with any kind of reforms to Social
Security or Medicare, or hey, we don't want illegal aliens
collecting Medicaid. So everything becomes like, oh my gosh, this
is the worst thing ever. You're destroying everything. We're all
gonna die, and so therefore I get to do whatever
I want. The Democratic Minority leadership of the HIPSY was
aware of the leak, but was under the impression that
leaking the information was one way to topple the administration
and fix the constitutional crisis. They thought they were doing
the good thing. We're the moral people in this equation
because it's literally Hitler Stalin Mao all rolled up into one.
The Democrat whistleblower provided details to the FBI in August
of twenty seventeen about a meeting that had occurred that
previous February, so about six months prior, in which the
staff meeting, the HIPSY staff meeting among these Democrats and
members of Congress, the Democrat staffers and this intel officer
where where the HIPSY staff director and the general council
advised the Minority staff that he wanted to drive the
quote Russian in involvement issue and wanted to drive it
into a joint inquiry similar to the nine to eleven commission.
That was the goal. He instructed the staff to use
any resources they had developed within the intelligence community to
gather facts. He wanted to make the information public and
use the media to compel public opinion to bring about
the joint inquiry. This was all by design, That's why
it was a hoax. They knew what they were doing.
They weren't being misled. It just wasn't like, oh, we
just went where the evidence took us. The Democrat Stafford
told the FBI in December of twenty seventeen that he believed, quote,
this was an explicit request to gather classified information for
public disclosure. Now, look, there is a perfectly reasonable explanation
for why he would think that is because that's exactly
what it was, right, That's what it was. And they
specifically targeted Mike Flynn. Another staffer was asked about the
Flynn information request at one of these meetings, and they
quote opined, everything is directed at Trump and trying to
get him impeached. Flynn just happened to be the issue
of the day end quote. They financially ruined him, professionally
ruined Flynn, ruined him. But hey, you know what, we
were trying to get Trump impeached, so it's all worth it,
so you can you can excuse really anything in order
to get rid of Hitler, right. The Democrat whistleblower also
told the FBI in December twenty seventeen that quote a
particular leak from the summer had caused him to quote
confront the committee members on this issue. He said that
a particularly sensitive document was viewed by a small contingent
of staff, as well as Shift and Swallwell, and within
twenty four hours the information appeared in the news, almost verbatim.
The staffer told the FBI that it was suspected that
Swalwell played a role in the leak, and noted that
Swalwell previously had been warned to be careful because he
had a reputation for leaking classified information. An FBI agent
had spoken with the same agent the same guy had
spoken with a Republican staffer, and that Republican staffer on
this committee talked about the sudden firing of a minority staffer.
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to just thenews dot com piece by John Solomon, an
FBI agent went and spe with a Republican staffer on
the House Permanent Select Committee. The FBI agent ostensibly trying
to track down like whether or not this whistleblower from
the Democrat staff was correct and what he was saying
about leaking classified information to the media as a purposeful,
intentional strategy to indict and impeach Donald Trump. Right by
Schiff Swallwell, they directed the HIPSI Committee staffers to leak,
and so an FBI agent goes and he talks with
a Republican staffer as part of this investigation, and the
Republican staffer mentioned to the FBI agent, Yeah, there was
this Democrat intel officer who got fired very abruptly. He
told the FBI agent that the Democrat staffer had told
him that he was quote suddenly fired due to a
perceived lack of party life loyalty. That's the whistleblower. The
Republican staffer told the FBI agent that the Democrat staffer
had told him that there was allegedly quote a systematic
process through which leaks were effected, and that quote he
had been fired because there was an expectation of leaking
and he refused to participate. They fired the guy for
not engaging in the illegal, unethical activity. That's how the
Democrats on the Intel Committee rolled right. The collusion hoax
was in fact a collusion, but it was collusion among
the Democrats on the Select Committee along with the Intel
agency chiefs. The GOP staffer went on to say that
the FBI or to the FBI that the Democrat staffer,
the whistleblower, had said, quote, this was not a one
time thing, but rather, under the system established by Schiff
and his staff, director, notes would be run up to
Schiff himself, after which a decision was made as to
who would leak the information. This was not some rogue staffer,
Schiff went on in twenty eighteen. August of twenty eighteen
would go on to baselessly claim, quote, I think there's
plenty of evidence of collusion or conspiracy in plain sight. Again,
that's why I call it the Russian collusion hoax. They
use those words, the Democrats use those words. Shiff used
these words. Shiff claimed again in April of twenty nineteen,
quote I've been very clear over the past year, year
and a half that there is ample evidence of collusion
in plain sight. Robert Mueller Special cat report in March
of twenty nineteen, though did not establish any criminal collusion
between Trump and Russia. The DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz
vindicated Devin Nuness and showed Shiff was wrong, not just wrong,
but lying. John Durham's twenty twenty three report concluded, quote,
neither US law enforcement nor the Intel community appears to
have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings
at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Schiff has
mentioned three times, by the way, in that Durham report
and get this story. A university researcher who refused to
investigate Trump Russia allegations was then threatened by a Schiff staffer.
Durham's report said, there were two researchers that we believed
to be from Georgia Tech, were on Capitol Hill in
November twenty eighteen. They were meeting with the Hipsey staff
regarding a pending cybersecurity federal research contract. During the meeting,
Hipsey staffers cut off the presentation to show researchers a
news article instead about Trump and Russia and Alpha Bank,
which was another hoax that they perpetrated. Schiff's staff told
the researcher they needed the university's help with the matter.
The researcher said that that would be inappropriate for a
public university to do this. A staffer from the office
of Senator Jack Reid, Democrat from Rhode Island, also allegedly said, quote,
we are now in charge, while a Hipsey staffer said
their boss schiff would soon take over leadership of Hipsey,
and the researcher took those comments at as a quote
mild threat. Keep in mind the House of Representatives censured shift.
Joe Biden pardoned him. All right, that'll do it for
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