I'm introducing an amendment to prohibit payment of @SecretService funds to Trump businesses. @POTUS should not profit off of the Presidency pic.twitter.com/vRgFRiXvtC
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) August 30, 2017
Rep. Adam Schiff seems to have a certain gift for keeping media attention where it needs to be…
The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said he fears the panel’s Russia investigation could end up producing two separate, partisan reports offering contradictory conclusions to Americans.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said he will work with other committee members “to do everything we can to prevent two separate reports” on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
“The ideal would be a comprehensive report with bipartisan support,” Schiff said in a phone interview from California with USA TODAY…
Schiff said the committee still has a long way to go in its Russia investigation and he is hopeful that it can avoid a partisan split.
He said the panel has been “making progress” but that it’s hard to say when the probe will be finished. The congressman expressed doubt that the investigation, which was announced in late January, would be completed this year…
Schiff praised the House panel’s staff but noted that they are experts in analyzing the performance of intelligence agencies — which the panel oversees — and are not prosecutors, Schiff said.
For that reason, the Department of Justice investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of prosecutors is better-equipped to deal with any criminal matters that arise from the probe, Schiff said. He said Mueller also has greater manpower…
The committee is continuing to conduct closed-door interviews of key witnesses and reviewing scores of documents, Schiff said.
“There’s a lot more I think we want to learn about why the Russians decided this was the time to interfere in our election,” he said. “And of course, most importantly of all, we want to learn how we can prevent it from happening again.”…
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Apart from cheering on the slowly grinding mills of fate, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
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