âŁSchiff Pardon Is Useless for New Claims in FBI Docs – Knew He Was Breaking the Law, Thought Being Lawmaker Let Him Get Away with It
California Sen. Adam Schiff is probably really wishing heâd smoked crack and filed knowingly false firearm background checks with Hunter Biden right now, I can imagine.
Hunter, you may recall, got a pardon for basically anything heâd done at the federal level going back to 2014 as his dad was on his way out of the Oval Office. That just so happened to be the year during which Hunter joined the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, which ended up planting the poison seed that grew into the noxious bush that ended with him getting convicted on one set of federal charges and pleading guilty to another. But, thanks to daddyâs pen, any sort of federal ruffianism he got into between then and the end of Bidenâs presidency was on the house.
Schiff, it so happened, also got a pardon â but one of those weird, newfangled âpreemptive pardons.â Effectively, figuring that the biggest levier of lawfare against former President Donald Trump would probably come under scrutiny now that he was again current President Donald Trump, Schiff was given immunity for his activities â but only as it related to the Democratsâ Jan. 6 kangaroo committee.
Thatâs important for two reasons. First, it appears Schiff either doesnât understand real estate finance law or understands it all too well, because he listed two primary residences between 2003 and 2020, ostensibly to get better mortgage terms from banks. (Such arrangements are almost always verboten.)
And, youâll never believe this, but John Solomon â one of the first guys to blow the whistle on Hunterâs strange Burisma adventures â has information that Schiff might also be in trouble for House Intelligence Committee shenanigans not related to the Jan. 6 committee, that happened about four years before that Jan. 6.
Whoops! If only heâd been combing through Hunterâs rugs trying to find a crumb of crack amidst all the Parmesan cheese before dropping a bricked MacBook off at a repair shop and forgetting about it entirely.
According to a report from Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy over at Just the News, FBI Director Kash Patel has declassified an FBI 302 interview â a memo that summarizes an interview with a source â with â[a] career intelligence officer who worked for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee for more than a decade repeatedly warned the FBI beginning in 2017 that then-Rep. Adam Schiff had approved leaking classified information to smear then-President Donald Trump over the now-debunked Russiagate scandal.â
âŁThe individual is said in the Monday report to be âa Democrat by party affiliation who described himself as a friend to both Schiff, now a California senator, and former Republican House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes,â who frequently clashed with Schiff over Russiagate.
âŁNunes ended up releasing his own memo, which Patel had a part in authoring and which was ridiculed when it was published in 2018 but turned out to be mostly correct â and far more correct than any of Schiffâs fictions.
âŁThe source, Just the News reported, said they âconsidered the classified leaking to be âunethical,â âillegal,â and âtreasonous,â but was told not to worry about it because Schiff believed he would be spared prosecution under the Constitutionâs speech and debate clause.â
Just the News also noted the âstaffer told the FBI that retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn â Trumpâs first national security adviser â was to be a specific focus of the committee as part of a broader effort to target Trump. The whistleblower also specifically pointed to Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., as a likely source of classified leaks, the memos state.â
The whistleblower said that âa particular leakâ in the summer of 2017 had caused him âto confront [the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence] on the issue,â and that âa particularly sensitive documentâ was âviewed by a small contingent of staff, as well as SCHIFF and Representative ERIC SWALWELL ⊠within 24 hours, the information appeared in the news almost verbatim.â
âŁThey âsuspected 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.â
The sourceâs most recent interview with the FBI was in 2023, in which he said he recalled attending a meeting at which the plan was discussed.
âŁâWhen working in this capacity, [redacted stafferâs name] was called to an all-staff meeting by SCHIFF,â the interview report read.
âIn this meeting, SCHIFF stated the group would leak classified information which was derogatory to President of the United States DONALD J. TRUMP. SCHIFF stated the information would be used to indict President TRUMP.â
âŁThe staffer, the report said, âwas eventually informed that the issue would not be investigated further by the DOJ, as Congressmen have immunity to all speech and actions made on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. [Redacted staffer] did not believe that the activity he witnessed would be protected by this legal provision.â
Now, if everything in the 302 memos is true, as Bill Clinton might have put it, this kind of depends on what you mean by âleakingâ leaked information â or rather, the manner in which it was done.
The key case in the whether the Speech and Debate Clause of the Constitution (âThey shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest ⊠for any Speech or Debate in either Houseâ) is Gravel v. United States, in which then-Democratic Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska effectively declassified the Pentagon Papers by having them read into the record of a Senate subcommittee meeting.
By a 5-4 ruling, the court said that a subpoena of one of Gravelâs aides was unconstitutional because Gravelâs action was protected under the Speech and Debate Clause and staffers served as âalter egosâ of their superiors.
âŁHowever, one assumes this staffer is familiar with Gravel v. United States, knows the protections afforded under it, and was willing to say that no, they did not believe this leaking fell under the aegis of it.
âFor years, certain officials used their positions to selectively leak classified information to shape political narratives,â Patel told Just the News. âIt was all done with one purpose: to weaponize intelligence and law enforcement for political gain.â
That being said, Just the Newsâ report acknowledged that the actions covered by the revelations âfall outside the statute of limitations for prosecution on most legal theories.â So did Donald Trumpâs âcampaign finance violationsâ in New York, and look how that went. Iâve said it before, and Iâll said it again: The Golden Rule of politics is âdo unto others as they do unto you.â Once a Rubicon has been crossed, there is no uncrossing it â and if any legal theory exists to extend that statute of limitations, weâre now in an area where itâll be done. This isnât even mentioning his real estate woes, either.
And Schiff doesnât have a preemptive pardon for it, either. Alas, if heâd only spent more time with Hunter.
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