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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: rangerrebew on November 21, 2019, 06:24:46 pm
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Report: Schiff lied about statute protecting whistlblower's anonymity
by: Free Press International News Service 2019-11-20 Source: FreePressers
House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Adam Schiff openly lied on two occasions during the Nov. 19 public impeachment hearings, reports say.
One falsehood by the California Democrat running the hearings came when he claimed that Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman had earlier testified that he thought President Donald Trump might have broken the law, Breitbart News noted.
In his opening statement on Tuesday, Schiff claimed that Vindman had reported his concerns about Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to a National Security Council lawyer because he thought the president might have done something illegal.
https://freepressers.com/articles/reports-schiff-caught-in-falsehoods-twice-during-tuesday-hearing?utm_source=&utm_medium=deployer&utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_term=&utm_content=20191121182229
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Schiff lied about a lot of things.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/20/democrat-jackie-speier-proves-no-law-protects-whistleblower-identity/ (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/20/democrat-jackie-speier-proves-no-law-protects-whistleblower-identity/)
Speier read aloud from a Washington Post article published earlier in the day that fact-checked Schiff’s claim that the whistleblower — whom Democrats previously wanted to testify — has a “statutory right†to anonymity.
She read the following into the record (emphasis added):
Federal law expressly restricts the inspector general’s office from disclosing whistleblowers’ identities. It says that “the Inspector General shall not disclose the identity of the employee without the consent of the employee, unless the Inspector General determines that such disclosure is unavoidable during the course of the investigation or the disclosure is made to an official of the Department of Justice responsible for determining whether a prosecution should be undertaken.â€
That appears to be the lone statutory restriction on disclosing a whistleblower’s identity, applicable only to the inspector general’s office. We found no court rulings on whether whistleblowers have a right to anonymity under the ICWPA or related statutes.
Jackie Speier is a Dem and her district borders Nancy Pelosi's. Breitbart says she "accidentally" disproved Schiffty's claim about anonymity, but I think it's more of a, "The WashPost exposed the lie, it's time to admit it and move on," kind of thing.