Deputy White House Counsel Patrick Philbin pointed out Wednesday in the question-and-answer session in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate that the Washington Post had written a lengthy article about former Vice President Joe Biden’s conflict of interest in Ukraine on July 22, 2019 — three days before Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, when he raised the issue.
Adam Schiff told the Senate it could not have witnesses and documents relating to the whistleblower or the Intelligence Community Inspector General.
The tech giants had imposed a code of censorship, and the mainstream media, supposedly so sensitive to any threat to press freedom, (mostly) willingly complied.
The “whistleblower” reached out to the intelligence community inspector general to justify contacting House Intelligence Community Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), claiming “nothing substantial was discussed.”
A complaint recently filed with the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) reportedly alleges that the “whistleblower” who triggered the partisan impeachment inquiry may have broken federal law by indirectly soliciting money from mainly anonymous sources, potentially including foreigners, via a GoFundMe page.
An official with the House Intelligence Committee was forced to clarify Chairman Adam Schiff’s remarks on Sep. 17 that “[w]e have not spoken directly with the whistleblower” in light of evidence the committee had done so.
