by Luis Cornelio at Headline USA
‘The FBI will now lead the charge, with our partners at DOJ, and Congress will have the chance to uncover how political power may have been weaponized and to restore accountability…’
A former Democratic intelligence official warned the FBI that in 2017, then-Rep. Adam Schiff had leaked to the media in an effort to smear President Donald Trump with the Russia collusion hoax.
The whistleblower’s warnings were nearly immediately dismissed, according to a newly released FBI memo.
The documents—first reported on Monday by Just the News and shared with Congress by FBI Director Kash Patel—detail how the DOJ shielded Schiff, D-Calif., from prosecution for allegedly leaking classified intelligence.
According to the FBI memo, the whistleblower—a self-described friend of Schiff—called the leaks “unethical,” “illegal,” and “treasonous.” He was then told “not to worry about it because Schiff believed he would be spared prosecution under the Constitution’s speech and debate clause.”
Notably, neither the solicitor general nor the attorney general had made that determination, Just the News noted.
Instead,…
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