Adam Schiff Was the Point Man for the Steele Dossier - Brookings Institute Stink Tank Was the Steel Dossier Nexus - Agent In Place John McCain Hands Off the Dossier - Hillary Clinton Fronted the Money - Millions of $$$s Wasted On This Nonsense

Editor's note: All roads lead to Brookings stink tank while Brookings honors the agent-in-place John McCain. Schiff gives a talk at Brookings on "protecting liberal democracy" - whatever the hell that is - while he shoves a knife in its back.

VIDEO: Rep. Adam Schiff—Russian attack on U.S. democracy an 'unprecedented act'

McCain Remembrances 

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Source: Adam Schiff

INTEL COMMITTEE RANKING MEMBER ADAM SCHIFF SPEECH AT BROOKINGS – "THE RISE OF AUTOCRATS: THE ROLE OF CONGRESS IN PROTECTING LIBERAL DEMOCRACY"

May 27, 2017

Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, delivered a foreign policy speech at the Brookings Institution – "The Rise of Autocrats: The Role of Congress in Protecting Liberal Democracy." 

Below is the speech, as delivered, which can be viewed here: 

The past months have left all of us reaching – for an understanding of where we are, for a sense of what lies ahead, for a path forward to meet the challenges, and, sometimes, for the right words to describe the unprecedented. As I often like to say, I'm running out of adjectives and expletives.

In the two months since Inauguration Day, things that seemed once unthinkable now seem routine. An air of semi-permanent crisis has settled over the nation's capital, where there is a palpable disquiet that I have never seen in the decade and a half I've served in Congress, and I think that disquiet crosses party lines.

Consider the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's investigation into the Russian Active Measures campaign against the 2016 election. Yesterday morning, the HPSCI held the first of two open hearings this month – the next will be next Tuesday – a hearing in which the Directors of the FBI and NSA stated unequivocally that a startling accusation of illegal wiretapping made by the sitting President against his predecessor was patently false, rebutted another statement the President issued during the hearing as also inaccurate – a rare opportunity to use the directors to fact-check the president in real time – and informed the country for the first time that the President’s campaign personnel were under federal investigation for possible collusion with the Russians. And all this was before lunch.

I came to Congress in 2001 and vividly recall the September 11th attacks and the weeks that followed. The tension was palpable back then as well – F-15s patrolled the skies over Washington and the National Guard troops were on the streets of major American cities. But there was also a unity of purpose, and a resolve that together, as Americans, we would confront the scourge of al Qaeda and win. There were prolonged and bitter disagreements in the months and years ahead about how to defeat terrorism, but we were united in identifying the threat and recognizing the need to act.

This time is different – despite the unanimous conclusion of the 17 entities that make up the U.S. Intelligence Community that the Russian government sought to sow discord in our political process and undermine the Clinton campaign, there is a seeming hesitancy to dig too deeply into possible collusion between the Trump organization and the Russians, and to ascribe too much to Moscow, lest it call into question the "legitimacy" of the outcome of the 2016 election.

As I have been saying for several weeks, I hope that our committee can transcend partisan division and work together in the coming months to produce a report to which we can all attach our names. This is a difficult test for Congress in an era where the legislative process has too often failed to fulfill even its most routine duties. And whether we can meet that test is far too early to say. But I certainly believe that it would be in the country's interest for us to do so. If, at the end of the day, both parties issue competing conclusions, we will have added very little to the nation's understand of this attack on our democracy.

It is no secret that I do not think that our investigation, or the parallel one being undertaken by our Senate counterparts, should be the last word on this matter. Last December, former Acting Director of the CIA, Michael Morrell, a man who has devoted his life to keeping this nation secure and who has served presidents of both parties throughout his career, told the Cipher Brief that Russia's interference in the 2016 elections was "the political equivalent of 9/11." I agree with Mike and I have been pushing for the creation of a 9/11-style commission that will have the time, resources, and charter to undertake a truly comprehensive investigation of what has happened.

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Brookings Institute Stink Tank (Steele Dossier Nexus)

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Chairman Schiff Speech at the Brookings Institution on China and the Intelligence Community

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Some light supplementary reading on Adam Schiff. Odd isn't it? Schiff talks about "protecting liberal democracy" in the diatribe above while at the same time he shoved a knife in its back:

The Secret Back Story Behind the Outright Treason of Adam Schiff