Adam Schiff lies and lies and lies. He writes (unsold) fictional scripts for movies. With the same pen, he writes fictional stories about real people, events and politics. In this case, they become falsehoods and lies designed to attack his political enemies. These are anyone who shows any signs of coming to terms or negotiating with his arch-villains: Russia, Russians and Putin. His enemies have included both Michael Flynn and Donald Trump. He has now added William Barr to the list.
Schiff’s entire structure of lies against Flynn and Trump hinges on the known fact that Flynn talked with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. According to Schiff “One of the chief surrogates of Donald Trump [Flynn]…has secret conversations with the Russians designed to undermine those sanctions.” The problem is that in February of 2017
“A current U.S. intelligence official tells NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly that there is no evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the transcripts of former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak…The official also says that there are recordings as well as transcripts of the calls, and that the transcripts don’t suggest Flynn was acting under orders in his conversations.”
“The official also said there was ‘absolutely nothing’ in the transcripts that suggests Flynn was acting under instructions ‘or that the trail leads higher.'”
Schiff’s accusation that Flynn was acting as a surrogate for Trump in those conversations is untrue. These conversations don’t show that Flynn was acting under Trump’s direction or specific instructions. If there is such evidence, Schiff has never produced it, and why wouldn’t he if he had it?
“Flynn talked about sanctions, but no specific promises were made. Flynn was speaking more in general ‘maybe we’ll take a look at this going forward’ terms.”
Schiff’s statement that Flynn was trying to undermine the sanctions in those conversations is not confirmed by the intelligence official who has seen the transcript and heard the recordings.
Schiff eventually arrives at the fiction that these conversations were “…a prime counterterrorism risk and the subject of a more than valid counterintelligence investigation.” Schiff’s notion that Flynn was a “prime counterterrorism risk” is incredible. It too is false. We now know that the FBI had no basis for investigating Flynn and that it would have dropped its investigation if the pro-Clinton and virulently anti-Trump faction in the FBI had not intervened. We know that, having no basis in fact, this faction then sought to entrap Flynn in a process crime.
Schiff comes to the end of his fiction with Trump being corrupt: “…if you are a friend of the president, then justice doesn’t matter anymore in this country.” Schiff doesn’t mention that the corruption of justice and the political process owes to a faction in the FBI and the Department of Justice. The other sources in the intelligence agencies and Obama’s Oval Office have yet to be brought out in a crystal clear way, but they will.
I believe that Schiff emits a combination of statements that he knows to be untrue and others that he believes in based upon his incorrect premises. Under his false premise that dealing with Putin must reflect traitorous behavior on the part of any American engaging in such overtures, he infers that Flynn, Trump and Barr must be guilty of consorting with the enemy, covering up, and corruption. Knowing what his conclusion must be, it is for Schiff then only a matter of selectively interpreting some events and deleting others in order to complete his script.
2:20 pm on May 9, 2020
