Posted on 01/29/2020 4:55:21 PM PST by jazusamo
Deputy White House Counsel Patrick Philbin shredded House Intelligence Committee Chairman and lead Impeachment Manager Adam Schiff (D-CA) for his contact with the Ukranian whistleblower, which led to the impeachment inquiry, and eventually the current trial. As it currently sits, we are still in the dark about what role Schiff and his staff played in the whistleblower's inquiry.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) presented the question on behalf of Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO).
"Is it true that Shawn Misco and Abigail Grace and the alleged whistleblower were employed by or detailed by the National Security Council in the same time period of January 20, 2017 and the present? Do you have reason to believe they knew each other and have any reason to believe that alleged whistleblower and Misco did everything they could to 'take out the president'?
"Mr. Chief Justice, Senators, the only knowledge that we have of this comes from public reports. I gather that there is a news report in some publication that suggests a name for the whistleblower and suggests where he worked and that he worked at that time while detail of the NSC staff for Vice President Biden and others who worked there," Philbin explained. "We have no knowledge of that other than what is in the public reports, and I don't want to get into speculating about that."
"It is something, to an unknown extent, may have been addressed in the testimony of the inspector general of the intelligence community before Chairman Schiff's committees, but that testimony, contacts with the whistleblower, contacts with Manager Schiff's staff and the whistleblower, are shrouded in secrecy to this day," Philbin explained.
"We don't know what the testimony of the IC IG was. It remains secret. It has not been forwarded," he said. "We don't know what Manager Schiff's staff contact with the whistleblower have been and what connections there are there. It's something that would seem to be relevant since the whistleblower started this entire inquiry."
Philbin said Trump's defense team can't say they have "particular knowledge of the facts stated In the question."
"We know there was a public report suggesting connections and prior working relationships between certain people, not something I can comment on other than to say that there's a report there. We don't know what the IC IG discussed. We don't know what the IC IG was told by the whistleblower, other reports about inaccuracies in the whistleblower's report to the IC IG. We don't know the testimony on that" he explained. "We don't know the situation of the contacts' coordination provided by Manager Schiff's staff to the whistleblower. It all remains unknown."
"It's obviously something that, to get to the bottom of motivations, bias, how this inquiry was created, could potentially be relevant," he said.
Patrick Philbin: reports of contact between the whistleblower and Schiffs staff are shrouded in secrecy. VIDEO 1:41min. https://youtu.be/JN3hzQc239M
The whistle blower was deeply involved in efforts by the Obama NSC to get dirt on Trump from Ukrainian prosecutors during the 2016 election. This was documented by Laura Ingram who reported on the NYT story by Ken Vogel who got tipped to the WH meeting and was blocked by the NSC from reporting it. He also worked with Biden and must have been aware of the details of Hunter’s board seat and the access this provided to the VP.
He “blew the whistle” because it allowed him to head off the investigation of Biden corruption that Trump was asking for while remaining anonymous so that he would not be charged with obstruction of justice for the crimes he was aware of and participated in.
Danger! Danger! Danger!
The Democrats are cheating!
Looks to me as if they know the questions in advance, and are bringing their folders to the podium to READ their answers.
LIEberals LIE! The managers are reading their LIEs!
Check the Republicans - they are NOT reading!
Republicans are standing tall and speaking clearly and precisely, EXTEMPORANEOUSLY!
A thing of beauty and a joy to behold!
See my post #20.
Has Trump’s lawyers detailed this in any of their presentations?
Taxman Bravo Zulu! Matt!
A most excellent meme!
is shredded like boom! is this a huge boom deal? another for the boom list?
Would he be a conservative Justice though??? We have no idea who he is I would actually prefer Jay Sekulow!!!
Philbin is one hell of a good litigator. Quick on his feet and smart when he gets there.
In any other case in any other court in America all of this WB/Schiff/Atkinson cover-up would be prosecutorial misconduct. We would not tolerate prosecutors colluding with witnesses, backdating documents, hiding evidence and preventing access to the witnesses from the defense.
Thank you, Travis McGee
Sorry I think the President’s team should have shaded that harder against Ciaramella, and it would have been doable without the name but with Ciaramella’s background with Biden.
Let this be a lesson to you youngsters out there in internet land.
The 2A aint about deer hunting.
And wait till the multiple books exposing this fiasco hit the stores.
Americans are going to realize how badly they've been duped.
Schiff demanding the discredited Bolton as a witness exposes Schiff as a first class conman---duping a peaceful nation.
The Senate must vote to acquit the President as the Articles are invalid! All the majority House Democrats intend to do is weaken the country, its institutions, and our Constitution!
They want to limit Free Speech
They want to infringe upon our 2nd Amendment rights
They want to abolish the electoral college
They want to take away our property rights
Vote everyone of these Democrats & Socialists out of office!
Donna must be in the house
You’re right on in my view and the sooner it starts the better for us and the entire country.
Schiff is a corrupt turkey of a politician that genuinely belongs in the slammer.
Get ready for more fun......
Trump has already issued the warning that Schiff has yet to pay the price ...........even before bolton was outed as a schnook.
Now Schiffs on record as demanding Bolton as a witness b/c everyday were finding new evidence.
Oooooooo......thats gonna hurt.
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