Newly Declassified Trump Impeachment Docs Implicate Adam Schiff
Documents newly declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard cast new light on the first impeachment of President Donald Trump over a phone call he had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, with information suggesting that now-Sen. Adam Schiff may have broken federal law.
Declassified documents released by Gabbard are being cited by some sources as raising questions about contacts between Schiff and an intelligence community whistleblower during the first impeachment inquiry.
The whistleblower has been widely reported in media accounts to be Eric Ciaramella, though his identity has not been officially confirmed by the U.S. government. The documents and related reporting have prompted renewed scrutiny from some commentators, while others note that key aspects of the claims remain disputed or unverified.
“The CIA analyst gave unpredicated and false testimony as a planted ‘whistleblower’ to run a coup against President Trump 45. Ciaramella’s name was revealed in a footnote in the Mueller Special Counsel report on Russia Collusion, which found no predicate whatsoever to prompt the investigation into the president,” PJ Media reported this week.
Giving false information to the FBI is a felony.
The FBI has not publicly confirmed any findings related to allegations that false information was knowingly provided during the process. Separately, reporting from RealClearInvestigations has been cited by some sources as part of ongoing legal discussions, though the scope and status of any related proceedings have not been independently confirmed.
PJ Media added:
For those playing the Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, lawfare and impeachment home game, Eric Ciaramella isn’t a new name to you. He’s a former CIA color revolution specialist whose “whistleblower” allegations about President Trump and Ukraine led to the impeachment of the 45th president for a “perfect” phone call. His explosive allegations took over news cycles, giving cover to Democrats’ impeachment efforts. His identity was completely protected by what we’ve come to call the Censorship Industrial Complex on social media and in the news media. Ciaramella was protected by Deep Staters who wanted Trump out regardless of the wishes of U.S. voters.
The coup de grâce is that the “whistleblower” told the FBI that Adam Schiff authorized his staff to leak classified intelligence during the Russiagate investigation. Indeed, Schiff was directly linked to the conspiracy, collaborated with Ciaramella in advance of becoming a “whistleblower” who provided false and hearsay information, lied about it all to the intelligence inspector general, and then hid exculpatory information that could have been used to vindicate Trump.
Georgetown Law Professor and Fox News legal expert Jonathan Turley, commenting on the newly released information, stating, “Someone’s lying, and someone’s a felon” because of the false information provided to the FBI. Also, it could be that Schiff, who was head of the House Intelligence Committee at the time, is at risk legally if he green-lit the leak of classified information.
“The chairman of the House Intel Committee doesn’t have declassification authority over these types of documents,” Turley told Fox News host Will Cain on Monday. “They are made available to Congress under very tightly controlled rules.
“This has been a source of tension for years. Members of both parties have gone out of their way to assure that this material would be closely held and not weaponized. Schiff was viewed as one of the most political chairs of that committee,” Turley continue.
What makes this different, he said, was that “this was a statement made to FBI agents,” adding that whoever said it “was no doubt aware that lying to FBI agents is not just a crime, but a crime that was repeatedly prosecuted.”
He concluded: “Someone’s lying here and someone’s a felon.
