Schiff dismisses GOP concerns on Steele dossier as foreign influence as 'whataboutism'
by Jerry Dunleavy
| June 19, 2019 05:29 PM
A top Democrat said the FBI's use of the unverified Steele dossier, which may contain foreign disinformation, in its investigations is different from President Trump's willingness to hear opposition research from foreign sources.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told the Washington Examiner it was wrong for supporters of the president to respond to Trump saying last week that “there’s nothing wrong with listening†to information from a foreign government during a campaign by comparing that with the Democratic National Committee-funded Fusion GPS hiring British ex-spy Christopher Steele to compile a dossier using Kremlin sources during the presidential election.
“I think this is an illustration of a tactic that the administration and its allies often use — which is the argument of false equivalence," Schiff said at the National Press Club on Wednesday.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., was one of many Republicans to weigh in last week. While saying that any campaign should reject foreign help and go to the FBI if they’re approached with foreign dirt, Graham also brought up concerns about foreign influence related to the Clinton campaign and Fusion GPS.
“During that [2016] race, we had a major American political party hire a foreign national, Christopher Steele, to dig up dirt on an American presidential candidate,†Graham said.
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