Kash Patel and John Solomon Declare Their Own Sources and Methods Illegal
The FBI released documents to John Solomon to run a hit piece on Adam Schiff that amounts to a confession that Kash Patel and John Solomon’s sources and methods were illegal.
At issue are some 302s from HPSCI whistleblower claiming that Adam Schiff tried to research and leak information about the Russian investigation.
Water.
Wet.
I mean, I don’t doubt that Schiff (and Eric Swalwell) did leak information from HPSCI, in the same way that I have no doubt that people close to Devin Nunes likewise leaked information.
There’s a very long history of members of Congress doing that, about all topics. It’s a safety valve for Executive abuse of classification authority.
I also know, for a fact, that the primary whistleblower, who describes that he was not part of Nunes’ team investigating Russia, gets key details about Schiff’s treatment of classified information and contact with the press in this precise period wrong. I also know that his imagined description of sources behind stories was badly flawed in at least one respect, in such a way that might have distracted the FBI from a far more ominous channel of classified information.
Keep in mind, too, that these 302s reflect a cherry pick of 302s from the investigation into leaks about Trump — an investigation that Kash himself has squealed mightily about (and was investigated in). Kash personally was considered a far bigger leaking concern into 2018 than Schiff’s staffers, even after this testimony, by Rod Rosenstein. And the flood of leaks to John Solomon (via whatever source) was institutionalized up to the end of Trump’s first term.
Indeed, after Kash claimed that Trump had declassified everything he took home with him in 2021, he had to invoke the Fifth Amendment when testifying about the claim before a grand jury.
Finally, they complain that ultimately — sometime after 2019 — DOJ decided that Speech and Debate prevented any charges here is pretty funny. That’s because the very same Speech and Debate protection prevented DOJ from accessing, much less prosecuting, most of the information implicating Scott Perry in Trump’s insurrection.
“And the flood of leaks to John Solomon (via whatever source) was institutionalized up to the end of Trump’s first term…”
Kash Patel was likely involved in the “via whatever source”. And so was Ezra Cohen-Watnick, who currently whines incessantly on Twitter about the leaks in the first term and the need to plug leaks now.
There is soo much pot calling the kettle black. The accuse others of what one is guilty is cranked up to 11. So much “but when the president does it, it’s not a crime”.
THat’s a weak defense.
Could Schiff have been trying to access material relevant to the first impeachment? That *would* seem to be covered by Speech and Debate.
Also, is John Solomon a Trump administration employee? Officially, I mean–because it’s hard to imagine how else DOJ justifies releasing information to him.
It’s covered by Speech and Debate.
Besides, as I said, I know for a fact that this testimony is not accurate in some respects.
Just read the 302s. I hadn’t processed when I commented before that they’re all from 2017, when Schiff was merely the ranking member of HPSCI, long before the Dems’ congressional majority put him in position to be impeachment manager.
They read to me like the gossip of a tattletale. Someone just *loved* being able to cozy up to real FBI agents in various bars around DC, telling stories out of school about the “indescribable” mood in the committee after Trump’s election, and how those bad, bad Democrats with all their non-existent power tried to pull strings ‘n’ stuff.
If Patel is relying on them now, it means he’s really got nothing.
One whistleblower combined with FBI investigations is what appears to have been released?
TImeline
05/17/2017 Comey Fired by Trump
08/02/2017 Wray confirmed and got to work employing agents to do Nunes dirty work? When I looked his tenure up the Wray smear begun as Just the News was the lead story when I looked for Wray on Google at 2100 MST on 08/21/2025.
09/21/2017 Nunes is Chairman of the HPSCI – Schiff CIA under Clinton – FBI interview investigation
12/1/2017 Nunes is Chairman of the HPSCI – Schiff Russia – FBI interview investigation
12/19/2017 Nunes is Chairman of the HPSCI – FBI interviews a witness about the actions of Schiff post the election of 2016 while Obama was President
11/13/2019 – Schiff is Chairman of the HPSCI – Whistleblower Report to FBI about Schiff.
05/23/2023 – Turner is Chairman of the HPSCI – FBI is still investigating this issue in 2023 in St. Louis but concludes that it can no longer look at it based on speech and debate….that’s why Wray and Turner had to go.