In the wake of the House Intel Majority basically declaring “Failure” to find any collusion or even a crime — any crime — during the 2016 Election season and deciding to take their ball and go home, Minority Ranking Member Adam Schiff has vowed that the Democrats on the Committee will produce their own report and that it will prove collusion.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, confirmed in an interview Tuesday that Democrats on the committee would be releasing their own report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
The minority report, according to the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent, who interviewed Schiff, will both “seek to rebut the GOP conclusions” and “detail all the investigative avenues that House Republicans declined to take — the interviews that they didn’t conduct, and the leads that they didn’t try to chase down and verify.”
Schiff told Sargent that the report will feature information that Republicans “didn’t permit to influence their conclusions,” in Sargent’s words.
“There’s no way for them to reach the conclusions that they want to start with unless they ignore or mischaracterize what we’ve been able to learn,” Schiff told Sargent.
“We will be presenting evidence of collusion, some of which is in the public domain and apparent to everyone willing to see it, and other facts that have not yet come to public light,” Schiff said separately. “I fully expect that the majority will omit many of these facts in its report and mischaracterize others.”
Basically he’s saying that he fully expects the Majority to LIE — again — just as they did with Rep. Nunes previous memo which left out or distorted over a dozen key facts about the FISA Warrant application for Carter Page.
Schiff has also produced a 21 page “Status of the Investigation” document which lists witnesses not interviewed and document not yet reviewed which include Kellyanne Conway, Natalia Veselnitskaya, Sergei Millian, Deutsche Bank, Sean Spicer, Reince Preibus, Cambridge Analytica, Crowdstrike, Bayrock, Facebook, Google and Twitter. Also Individuals they would like to bring back include Bannon, Lewandoski, Hicks, Don Jr, Kushner, Mark Corallo, George Nader, Sam Nunberg, Stephen Miller, Kt McFarland, Michael Cohen and Erik Prince.
Schiff wrote at the top of his “Status of the Russia Investigation” Tuesday that “[t]he decision to shut down the investigation before key witnesses could be interviewed and vital documentary evidence obtained will prevent us from fully discharging our duty to the House and to the American people.”
The document, Schiff wrote, lists “key witnesses” the committee has not yet contacted or interviewed, as well as document production requests the committee has not yet made “from persons and entities of relevance to the investigation.”
Read Schiff’s “Status of the Russia Investigation” below:
In addition to what Schiff has to say Republican House Intel member Trey Gowdy seems to have spoken up and defied GOP orthodoxy by stating that he feels that Russia definately tried to harm the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, wrote in a statement Tuesday that the committee’s probe of Russian election meddling made clear “Russia had disdain for Secretary Clinton and was motivated in whole or in part by a desire to harm her candidacy or undermine her Presidency had she prevailed.”
That statement, flagged by CNBC, seems to be at odds with the one-page summary of committee Republicans’ draft report on the probe released by Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX) Monday. That document said in part that the committee had concurred with the intelligence community’s January 2017 assessment of Russian meddling “except with respect to Putin’s supposed preference for candidate Trump.”
So Conaway says not only was the “no collusion” but that “Russia didn’t meddle” in the election, Gowdy say they did meddle and they certainly tried to harm Clinton’s campaign — which by the inverse rule of common sense means that they HELPED. DONALD. TRUMP. — and Schiff is saying that there was collusion because during multiple occasions it’s already been documented that Trump readily accepted and invited that help, then used his position to repeatedly reward and protect Russia.
Yeah, that’s collusion.