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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on October 04, 2019, 12:10:44 am
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Adam Schiff-Ukraine connection comes under scrutiny
By Alex Pappas | Fox News
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who has played a leading role in investigating the Trump-Ukraine scandal, is facing questions about his own connection to a Soviet-born businessman who has raised money for his campaign and whose company has received lucrative defense contracts from Ukraine's government.
That man is Igor Pasternak, the founder and CEO of Worldwide Aeros Corp., which makes blimps for military and commercial customers. His business has also been involved in weapons manufacturing, working with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense to produce a modified version of the M4 and M16 rifles, according to reports.
In 2013, Pasternak hosted a fundraiser in Washington for Schiff, who later came to embrace a strong stance in support of the United States sending military aid to Ukraine during its conflict with Russia.
“Before this time, Schiff rarely, if ever, mentioned Ukraine,†Fox News’ Laura Ingraham said on her show Thursday night, after detailing Schiff’s connection to Pasternak. “But after the fundraiser, he used multiple television appearances to basically demand that we send money and arms to them.â€
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October 3, 2019
So the whistleblower went to Adam Schiff first, not the designated intelligence authorities?
By Monica Showalter
Remember when intelligence leaker Ed Snowden's gentlest critics said he should have taken his complaints of intelligence abuses through established internal channels instead of stealing thousands of documents of top-secret intelligence files and then leaking them to the press? That "mistake" — and I don't think it was one — is what drove him to seek refuge in the old Soviet Union just a few years ago.
Remember when the same was said of then-private Bradley Manning, who leaked troves of military secrets to WikiLeaks before being packed off to Leavenworth? He should have gone through channels...
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/10/so_the_whistleblower_went_to_adam_schiff_first_not_the_authorities.html#ixzz61NrtjqKG (https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/10/so_the_whistleblower_went_to_adam_schiff_first_not_the_authorities.html#ixzz61NrtjqKG)