Schiff hired former colleague of alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella the day after Trump-Ukraine call
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff hired a former National Security Council aide who worked with alleged Ukraine whistleblower Eric Ciaramella at the NSC during the Obama and Trump administrations the day after the phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
It was previously reported by the Washington Examiner that public records indicated Sean Misko, 37, started work on Schiff’s committee in August as a professional staff member. A specific start date was not available until this week when the latest congressional quarterly disbursements were released.
The new records show that Misko’s official hire date was July 26.
Misko was the director for the Gulf States at the NSC between 2015 until the first half of 2018. The Washington Examiner has established that the whistleblower is a CIA officer who was on the NSC during the Obama administration and worked on Ukrainian issues with Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic candidate, when he was vice president.
Ciaramella, 33, is a career CIA analyst and was the Ukraine director on the NSC from 2016 until the summer of 2017. In October 2016, he was Biden's guest at a State Department banquet.
Before joining the NSC, Misko worked in the Obama administration at the State Department for deputy chief of staff Jake Sullivan, who went on to become Hillary Clinton's senior foreign policy adviser during her 2016 presidential campaign.
Both Ciaramella and Misko started their tenures during the Obama administration and left during the first year of the Trump administration. The Washington Examiner was told by a former senior White House official that both had a close, “bro-like” relationship while working at the NSC together.
A career CIA analyst with Ukraine expertise, the alleged whistleblower filed an Aug. 12 complaint with the Intelligence Community inspector general about the July 25 phone conversation between Trump and Zelensky.
The suspected whistleblower did this after meeting with a House Intelligence Committee aide on Schiff’s staff about the call, which is now the focus of impeachment proceedings. Before going to the Schiff aide, the whistleblower informed the CIA legal counsel's office.
Schiff initially denied he knew about the complaint before it was filed in mid-August.
“We have not spoken directly with the whistleblower. We would like to," Schiff said on Sept. 17. However, the statement was false, and an aide from his staff had spoken to the whistleblower before the whistleblower complaint was submitted.
The identity of the Schiff aide who spoke to the whistleblower has not been made public, and it has not been confirmed until now that Misko was on Schiff's staff at the time.
By Oct. 5, it was reported the whistleblower had never indicated to the inspector general he contacted Schiff’s office before filing the complaint against the president. Three days later, the whistleblower met with the inspector general to clarify why he did not mention his meeting with Schiff’s staff, saying he did not think that anything of “substance” was discussed.
The House Judiciary Committee is expected to proceed with its first hearing on Wednesday, and Georgia Republican Rep. Doug Collins, a senior member of the committee, wants to call Schiff as a witness to testify about what he knows about the whistleblower and the interactions his staff had with the whistleblower prior to filing the complaint.
During an interview on Fox News on Sunday, Collins said, “It’s easy to hide behind a gavel and Intelligence Committee behind closed-door hearings, but it’s going to be another thing to actually get up and have to answer questions about what his staff knew, how he knew, what he knew about the whistleblower report, his interactions he’s had with Ukraine, the other things that he’s had over time in this process.”
At a public impeachment hearing, Schiff denied he knew the identity of the whistleblower and pledged to keep the whistleblower’s identity a secret.
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You're quite prolific with your faux scandals today.
The "Lefty" Sham continues !
These so-called Expert "Anti-Trump Scholastic WITNESS's"..... in this hearing TODAY.....didn't "WITNESS SHIT !
Funniest claim was from Prof. Karlan, when asked about what the founding fathers would think :
"I can't speak for the founding fathers, but the founders would say"...…….
WTF ?
What they all did today was to confirm that what Trump is known to be guilty of is exactly why Trump must now be impeached, convicted and removed. It is why the framers of our constitution gave Congress oversight such powers including those to impeach and remove such a corrupt and malfeasant President...
...Was to show their intellectual "Partisanship", as the Democrats on the committee used Prof. Turley's past comments, but ignored Prof. Turley when they used his past comments.
Not one Democrat on that committee, wants to hear from Prof. Turley. They just want to hear from the "Intellectually Inept" ones that have TDS disease !
Representative Gaetz just showed the (3) three's bias in his questioning on what they've "Written" and the "Shows" they've been on.
Nadler got upset that Representative Gaetz brought out an actual "Truth" for a change.
You know it and I know it. It is the Kool Aid intoxicated base that will never accept it. Unfortunately, some of them are on the hill.
Eric (I'm Hysterical by nature) Swalwell goes after Prof. Turley....HARD, but diverts and only asks questions of the Prof. Karlan.
Good job Eric....you're so great in your own mind.
Do you get
it DOESN"T FCKN MATTER WHO THE HELL THE WHISTLEBLOWER IS anymore
TRUMP himself has PROVEN what whistleblower was whistling about past the grave
circumstances where ones such as you can't see, the problem, and IT IS
Your blind patronage to one not fit to spit shine Obama's shoes, sneaks right past while you continue to Converse about a procedure, not remedy the cancer.
To truth, you and Trump, have not an answer
Schifty Schiff recused himself ?
i'll state it again
To truth, you and Trump, have not an answer
In this country ( you are in this country....right? ). ..and according to "U.S. LAW" ..... NO ONE .... I repeat..... NO ONE , is required to prove their Innocence !
you're a hypocrite then yet again
WHY DOES SCHIFF have to prove something to you, ME ?
Why does HE have to prove his innocence, when you take Trumpps every LYING WORD...?
I believe the relevant question is, did Devin Nunes? He is the one who is right in the middle of all this corruption.
He's the "Whistleblower" ?
Who knew ?
Sureas Hell was blowing one over at the White House,
shit, made Monica blush.
Are you familiar with Nunes history on a committee he should have been thrown the fck off of after running to the WH to release 'Vital" info to the POS potUS, that was given to him BY THE potUS ????
You make no sense !
"Courts" usually require (98%) "intense psychiatric help" for people like that spew things like that.
READ THE BOOK !
From the "Lefty" Parody Report ?
then go get it
And all by yourself ?
every one of your comments is a poor parody on reality
Do tell !
i'm a loan you could NEVER pay back
You're part of "Whole-Tail" ?
you are a part of as"Whole-Tail" world turns
on an Axis
based on ALLIES
You don't know what "Whole-Tail" is …. do you ?
i wrote the Whole-Tail told story, and sold it at Re-Tail,
asz "WHole-Tail" i s just another shortened Tall Tale I'm told
Explain it then.
As the "Author" that is.
"Read THE BOOK"
Again...all by yourself ?
She started out the day by almost shrieking at Collins and then whined about not having a decent Thanksgiving dinner because she had to read all of the documents.
Matt Gaetz skillfully exposed this nasty woman: She donated thousands to Obama, Hillary, and Liz Warren political campaigns. No bias there, right?
OH ... and she apparently ridiculed Barron Trump. Gaetz called her "mean" for doing that, and rightfully so. I bet she would NEVER have dared do the same to the Obama girls.
Gaetz didn't expose dick
For sure.
"OH ... and she apparently ridiculed Barron Trump"
Not "Apparently"....she actually DID !
Maybe she was the one that got the "Baron Trump" psychopathetic twitshits going back in 2017 ?
Just a thought.
I'm not in the habit of checking to see if men expose their dicks, so I'll take your word for it.
You know what I meant. He didn't expose diddly squat
Oh, I see. I took your dick comment as real. Apologies.
From the article:
I really don't think Shifty is that bright, he is going to get caught up in his own game.
Is it true that Schiff got a standing ovation when he entered the room?