FBI Director Kash Patel has released a bombshell report that a Democratic whistleblower accused now California Sen. Adam Schiff of approving the leaking of classified information to target President Donald Trump. While this is only the unverified allegation of a single former staffer, the alleged conduct would involve criminal and unethical conduct of the highest order, if proven.
The whistleblower is described as working for the House Intelligence Committee for over ten years and reported Schiff’s alleged conduct in 2017, according to documents obtained by Just The News.
The staffer described Schiff’s conduct as “treasonous” and “illegal.”
Schiff has previously been accused of politicalization of intelligence, including his claims (after the Special Counsel rejected the Russian collusion claims as unsupported) that he had secret evidence in the Committee proving such collusion. He never produced that evidence, and it is widely believed that it did not exist.
This is different. This would be a premeditated criminal act. It is hard to believe that a “player” like Schiff would be stupid enough to openly discuss such a criminal act in a staff meeting. However, the fact that the whistleblower made this allegation in a report to the FBI is equally probative. It is a crime to lie to federal investigators.
It is also notable that this allegation never leaked. At that time, the congressional committee and the FBI were leaking sieves of classified and embarrassing information targeting Trump and his associates. Yet, this allegation (as well exculpatory information on the Russian investigation for Trump) were not leaked or published in the media.
The whistleblower was reportedly very specific in details on the meeting:
“When working in this capacity, [redacted staffer’s name] was called to an all-staff meeting by SCHIFF. In this meeting, SCHIFF stated the group would leak classified information which was derogatory to President of the United States DONALD J. TRUMP. SCHIFF stated the information would be used to indict President TRUMP.”
[The whistleblower] stated this would be illegal and, upon hearing his concerns, unnamed members of the meeting reassured that they would not be caught leaking classified information.”
That is the type of statement that could presumably be confirmed by any of the staffers in the room, who are themselves subject to criminal charge if they lie to investigators. The question is what these staffers said to the FBI or whether it pursued this investigation fully in light of the alarming allegations.
What is clear is that someone is lying and someone is a felon. Either Schiff ordered the commission of a serious felony or this whistleblower made repeated false statements to the FBI. The public — and Congress — has every right to know the answer.
The democrats are going to save democracy by doing away with the bill of rights and destroying the opposition. Freedom will be restored.
Nothing is more democratic than just removing the opposition from the ballot.
It’s so bizarre it isn’t believable. Wait for corroborated testimony.
They’re after Shifty. He’ll be proud that he fought the good fight when he’s wearing orange.
You know how the Dems don’t care if these accusations against Schiff are legit or corroborated, because the ends justify the means? Well that’s how MAGA feels about Epstein. The only thing more shocking than Biden not releasing any Epstein information that incriminated Trump, is that they didn’t just fabricate incriminating information and “leak” it. I.E Russiagate
If we could harness the Democrat spin in the comments here, we wouldn’t even need any power plants.
There is no allegation here that would be considered illegal or unethical by modern standards.
“There is no allegation here that would be considered illegal or unethical by modern standards.”
Now where have I heard that justification before. Oh right: “No controlling legal authority”
By your standard, everything the Nazis did was fine, because it was all legal according to their own laws.
Based on the volume of left-wing deflection displayed here, I have to assume that the only jobs created by Democrats are for their online trolls.
“The memos are mostly FBI 302 interview reports, which as explained by one criminal defense law firm, allow an FBI agent to draft a memo—in paragraph form—of what the witness said. It can be one-page long or twenty-pages long, depending on the length of the interview.
The memo section of a 302 is the key part. This is a combination of what the agent was able to write down during the interview and his recollection. It may list the questions and the answers or simply be a narrative of what the witness said. The witness generally doesn’t see the 302 or get a chance to correct any mistakes he thinks are in it before it is finalized.”
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/exclusive-democrat-whistleblower-told-fbi-schiff-approved-leaking-classified
So what we have is pretty much hearsay. It’s not a sworn statement. Why didn’t Comer or Jordan investigate this? Probably because they have done the same thing too.
Is it really a crime to leak “classified” info? I remember Comer and Jorda doing the same thing when. they wanted to smear Biden during the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.
Wow, more and more words of desperation. Tells me that this is hitting pretty close to the bone if the deflection trolls are out here working so hard.
It’s sounds like you have nothing to rebut with. Professor Turley left out the fact that this is based on an FBI 302 form which explains why professor Turley is also skeptical about the allegations. That doesn’t stop him from facilitting the allegation to keep the insinuation that Schiff did committ a crime without evidence.
Even the claim of classified info that was allegedly discussed it wasn’t specifically spelled out just what that was in the 302 form. This is clearly just a distraction from the Epstein scandal that president Trump can’t seem to get rid of. MAGA sure is persistent isn’t it?
Keep on spinning and repeating your MAGA mantra. It’s worked ever so well thus far.
The “Just the News” article mentions the “bombshell” document to be an FBI 302 document. The claim gets even more suspect by the fact that the FD-302 form Just the News is using is not a sworn statement and it’s not a verbatim account of what the staffer said. This claim goes way back to 2017 which means Kash Patel’s “discovery” is more likely a planned distraction rather than a genuine revelatioin.
According to Just the News this “staffer” is also very good friends with David Nunes the same Nunes who constantly sues and loses dafamation cases. That’s not a good thing for the credibility of the whistleblower,
“areer intelligence officer who worked for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee for more than a decade repeatedly warned the FBI beginning in 2017 that then-Rep. Adam Schiff had approved leaking classified information to smear then-President Donald Trump over the now-debunked Russiagate scandal, according to bombshell FBI memos that Director Kash Patel has turned over to Congress.
The FBI 302 interview reports obtained by Just the News state the intelligence staffer — a Democrat by party affiliation who described himself as a friend to both Schiff, now a California senator, and former Republican House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes ”
It’s intersting professor Turley didn’t bother to mention that this was based on a 302 form which is basically a summary of what someone brought to their attention but they could not corroborate.
Lots of slander in here, not much refutation. This troll reeks of desperation.
How is it slander?
Just the News stated their source is an FBI FD-302 form which is not even a statement taken under oath. It’s just a memo mentioning a “staffer” wanted to convey an allegation to the FBI to investigate. What is this classified info that Schiff allegedly wanted to leak? If the “staffer” knew what was said why didn’t he tell the FBI? There are no details. I makes it more suspicious that this “staffer” is just not credible and the FBI determined long ago that this person is not being truthful about his claims.
Why didn’t the “staffer” go to Nunes? Which Just the News reports is very good friends with? Nunes would have more clout if he corroborated the claims under oath. Since the source of these allegations come from an FBI 302 form it is more likely this is just a “staffer’s” attempt at manufacturing a scandal at the behest fo someone else. That’s a more likely theory than what it’s being alleged about Schiff.
Spin spin spin. Yep, you’re absolutely desperate. Is this you, Schiff?
(this is georgie at his best, or worst,
Who is georgie?
Libel, it’s written…
When a “staffer” claims Schiff’s actions were “treasonous” it should be taken with very healthy dose of skepticism. If professor Turley is highly skeptical of the claim. It’s more likely it’s just an unfounded claim by Patel to distract from the the Epstein Scandal.
The Democrat Epstein scandal? Why would Trump want to distract from Democrats hanging themselves with their own tar baby? You’re very confused.
Democrat? MAGA has been the biggest proponent for the release of the files. Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are in a position to facilitate that and now they are very shy about committing to their release? MAGA doesn’t buy it and the president isn’t making it easier to just dismiss the scandal when he reveals that Epstein was recruiting his employees and knew about it for years. The scandal is of Tump’s own making.
MAGA MAGA MAGA. How’d that work out for you in November? Keep saying it though, maybe some day it will work to remove the orange menace.
Epstein was a big time Democrat. Recruiter and donar. This is your scandal. I can understand your desperate attempts to deflect, but it won’t work.
“Epstein was a big time Democrat.”
So was Trump when he was very good friends with Epstein. MAGA loves the idea of a Democrat being seen as a groomer, Pedophile, and all around sexual abuser, like Trump was. Trump was definitely a big time Democrat when Epstein was doing his worst.
Trump was never a “good friend” of his so nice try. Epstein is your scandal, your problem, your pedophiles.
Trump was very good friends with
Epstein for a decade. They even shared private plane rides and attended each other’s parties. Epstein is MAGA’s scandal and MAGA wants the truth from Trump.
Trump was a sexual abuser and Epstein was a pedophile and serial sex abuser. Friends of a feather right?
Tou do know schiff and Ed Buck were good friends right?!
You can try to invent your own fake reality, but we don’t have to live in it. This is your mess. Epstein is your tar baby. We’re going to clean it up, like Republicans always clean up Democrat disasters.
Actually, I believe someone yesterday attached a link to a published site documenting that Clinton had been on Epstein’s plane something like 28 or 29 times, including to the private Isle?
Both presidents deny they were there, —but why is only one getting all the attention?
Lin,
Allow me to inform you, it was 26 trips as official flight logs to the FAA show and his SS detail did not accompany Clinton 5 of the flights.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/flight-logs-show-bill-clinton-flew-on-sex-offenders-jet-much-more-than-previously-known
Aha. thank you Upstate.
Lin,
Also, as I have stated on the good professor’s blog in the past, I do not think the Epstein files/evidence will ever see the light of day. I am of the opinion there are many people on both side of the isle, powerful and rich people from DC, Wall St. Hollywood, Silicon Valley, perhaps academia, internationally, heads of state, even royalty as we have seen one but not limited to just the UK. I think this may be the Pandora’s Box a lot of rich, powerful people would like to keep shut. As others have noted, if Trump’s name was on a list, or other incriminating evidence there of, it would of came out during the Biden admin namely during the run up to the election.
Lin
I don’t believe there was ever any evidence of Trump going to pedo island on the Lolitta express. I imagine Trump pal’d around with Epstein early on in their lives chasing women and making the NY disco scene of the day as they were part of the same clique. I’m sure Trump bagged a few legal age very beautiful ladies in his younger days, maybe even had a few Mazzolarollas. Poor behavior in retrospect but norm for the day, embarrassing to see but not illegal?! It looks like the evidence provided so far indicates Trump ghosted Epstein and banned him from Mar a Lago as his nefarious actions became more obvious.
And I would agree.
Even further and as a female, I’m not so keen on the “victimhood” status of Epstein’s under-aged girls. Any girl past puberty knows what is right and wrong, and girls might have been blinded by money and fame and luxury,- but so are women of legal age. (And where were their parents?)
This is not the same thing as a man dishonestly talking a young girl into a lewd or illegal act; this is a lifestyle chosen by the girls. Epstein did some pretty bad stuff with them but I am hard-pressed to see them as poor victims.
Bill Clinton. 26 trips on Epstein’s Lolita Express. Some without the SS detail
Upstate we have a winner!
Give that man a flavorful Cigar!
For some reason did not get a “reply” button for lin’s post, so posting this here…
lin says:
“Even further and as a female, I’m not so keen on the “victimhood” status of Epstein’s under-aged girls. Any girl past puberty knows what is right and wrong, and girls might have been blinded by money and fame and luxury,- but so are women of legal age. ”
Hmmm. Isn’t the entire premise of different treatment under the law between even older minors and adults (including classification of certain offenses against them) predicated on the concept that the full development of the judgement expected of a competent adult does not typically occur until a certain age? Are you refuting that entire concept here? My personal experience indicates that there are (or at least once were, I am not young) a quite large number of post-pubescent females under age 18 who almost completely lacked the kind of judgement that you seem to be crediting to them. Now, to what extent that was a function of age, and to what extent those females were condemned to go through most or all of their lives without grasping the relevant moral precepts, I cannot say.
-glad I saw your response, and thanks for your thoughts on that.
your statement, “Now, to what extent that was a function of age, and to what extent those females were condemned to go through most or all of their lives without grasping the relevant moral precepts, I cannot say.”
Precisely.
So, YES, in today’s world, where teenage girls are often more savvy and precocious in their understanding than older women with “full development of the judgement expected of a competent adult.” YES, I find the age matrix an arbitrary standard. Even in criminal liability, assessment of underage maturation is an evidentiary finding, n’est ce pas? In this case, the conduct/activity in question is not rocket science here.
Accordingly,
I do not not take umbrage with minors being excused of conduct because of underdeveloped maturation, but rather, I take umbrage with media and prosecutors bestowing “class status” on the entire group as “victims.”
No more, no less, that is all I say.
WAIT A MINUTE WITH THE PEDOPHILE LANGUAGE. Nearly all States set the age as 16 now with an age difference of 2 to 4 years so take it down to 14. New York is 17. Florida maintains 18 and Epstein was hit there. At best they’re juveniles.
Injury , trauma can happen at any age in reality. Put out psychiatrist shingle. There are 13 yo murdering people now and it’s reported as juvenile and not chil murderers.
Any injury , trauma will affect behavior for the remainder of life and it will have symptoms and the person may be blind to it which is the big tell. Guifree became an abuser as a symptom. Did she know it? No. She remained blind. Her injuries were sustained at age 12 by family friends or such.
Epstein was a pig. Leave it alone. I’ve noticed people are dead? Stfu
Epstein is dead and has been for nearly 6 years. It seems that certain commenters are not only trying to beat the dead horse but actually resurrect him. Good luck with that. I can find nothing in the medical literature that gives hope to a resuscitated Epstein esp after 6 years.
Schiff impresses me that he can be absolutely that dumb. All we have to do is remember his thought leaders were Joe Biden (mush for brains) and Kamala Harris (who may be trying to actually preserve her brain antemortem with liquid spirits”.
I don’t think this is real news about Schiff since I believe the Republicans previously tried to lock him out of intelligence briefings because of his total disdain for the old statement of “loose lips, sink ships” and just his general stupidity. He makes a fence post look absolutely brilliant.
The Epstein scandal won’t go away because MAGA was lip-locked to it for years. They were thoroughly enamoured with the idea that there was more to it than the Biden administration led them to believe. Trump did promise to release the files and Kash Patel who is now the FBI directot also promised to look into it since he is also a big believer in the conspiracies surrounding the Epstein files. President Trump has made things worse by making stupid comments that keeps the conspiracy theorists even more convinced there is something going on that even Trump does not want them to know.
The scandal is of MAGA’s own making and the president is now dealing with the craziness of the MAGA conspiracy theory obsession that just won’t shut off until they are thoroughly satisfied that the truth behind the whole thing is finally revealed. Now those who peddled the idea of a full unconditional release are backtracking and obfuscating it’s adding more suspicion and distrust. Trump won’t be able to get rid of it until he does what he promised to do. Release the files in their entirety. If he could release the MLK files he can certainly release the Epstein files just as easily.
MAGA MAGA MAGA
If repeating that mantra didn’t work back in November, why do you think it will matter now?
These morons don’t understand that it’s not about MAGA, it’s not about DJT. It’s about accountability, America has watched the Deep State political criminals corrupt our government for decades. America thirsts for retribution for their crimes, accountability for their actions. Hard working Americans are sickened watching these people stealing our hard earned tax dollars on idiotic programs, while becoming multi millionaires on their $170k/yr jobs. Voting themselves lifelong pensions and healthcare packages far beyond anything a regular citizen can get. It’s about a reckoning, accountability for the corruption.
@Anonymous
‘Epstein distraction’ is what they are officially running with for the time being, I have seen identical gaslighting in a number of places elsewhere. The talking points have gone out.
We should start making wagers, given the same garbage is recycled on repeat ad nauseam, on what it’ll be next month.
James,
It is the only thing they have for now. While more and more evidence comes forward of all the wrong doing of the Democrat party, the Russiagate scandal, which is looking to be the biggest scandal of the century, surpassing the Joe Biden scandals, they are desperate to deflect. Of course what they fail to mention is that we have a whistleblower on Schiff’s part in the Russiagate scandal, is that the Joe Biden FBI and DOJ did nothing to follow up or investigate. Now that the information has been shown to the public, the FBI and DOJ launch an investigation to verify the initial whistleblowers reporting.
Although Trump’s legal take over of the DC PD may be their new “fascism!” claims. If the actions taken by Trump do in fact lead to real reduction in crime, kinda like the reduction in illegals at the border and reduction in crime in the ICE raids in LA, the “fascism!” claims will blowup in their faces. Like all their other claims have.
How marvelous!
MAGA wants the Epstein files released. Trump promised them and when he reneged on the promise MAGA lost its mind.
MAGA is what kept the Epstein files alive and Trump took advantage of that, until it became a problem even he couldn’t tamp down.
Say MAGA a few more times, perhaps your stupid rants will suddenly start making some sense 🙄
*. Epstein was a very dangerous person, GEB. Men like DJT knew he was and men move away from dangerous men. Foolish to do otherwise.
They’ll get Shifty.
Congress needs to enact legislation that will incentivize whistleblowers to come forward. It could be modeled after the federal False Claims Act that allows whistleblowers to file suits on behalf of the government against individuals and companies alleged to be defrauding the government. These qui tam cases can amount to hundreds of millions of dollars in fines, and the whistleblowers share the prize for their work. Yes, there is an element to this that is dark and unsavory in a sense, but how else can we learn of actions like those of California Sen. Adam Schiff and other politicians who cloak their crimes in secrecy and rely on a pliable media to cover for them? Pharma companies like Eli Lilly, which in 2009 paid out $1.4 billion in fines for off-label promotion of one of its drugs in a case started by a whistleblower, nowadays self-police against False Claims Act violations. Sometimes, you just need to show the horse the whip, and it gets the message.
Its time the corrupt DEMS are held accountable for their deeds and anti democratic policies as well as corrupt mortgage fraud and insider trading. Schiff is just the start of many corrupt Washington Elite/Insiders get whats coming to them and hope they are thrown in jail, not country club but Medium security or spend their time in the rat hole of a DC Jail where they kept the J^
As in the case of the Clinton plan intelligence, an important question here is what DOJ/FBI did to investigate. They could have called in others for questioning, and they could have sought warrants for surveillance. Was anything done?
Daniel,
According to the Just The News report and the whistleblowers interview, looks like nothing was done or they were assured they would not get caught.
Schiff has put out a statement saying this was a disgruntled employee fired for cause in early 2017, and that Trump’s DOJ found his allegations to be not credible. Again, it would be helpful to know how the DOJ reached this conclusion, if it did so.
Daniel: Here’s the quote from Schiff’s office:
“These baseless smears are based on allegations that were…”
???????????????
pretty funny wording, that there.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/schiff-accused-of-leaking-classified-info-in-treasonous-russiagate-plot-memos-show/ar-AA1Kodmf?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=ca9bced8159f4dd0faa7579820bcb3dc&ei=13
Dan
We all saw what Comey did, he did similar in travel gate investigations. The question I have is since when did it become the FBI Director who to prosecute for crimes? I thought that was the job of the DOJ? The excuse no one would indict the first lady or similar is deflection and obstruction.
Adam Schiff praises DOJ for indicting Trump for mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Laga. “Rep. Schiff on Trump indictment: A very important day for our democracy
MSNBC” (You Tube)
Or maybe it’s not the whistleblower or Schiff lying. What about Patel? Could he be trying to help Trump distract from the Epstein files scandal?
If the professor sounds skeptical but still tries to insinuate that Schiff may have committed a crime he’s just facilitating the allegations to help keep the suspicion alive.
Or maybe you are a partisan hack who still wants to believe Schiff even after he has been proven to be a liar over and over again.
Does it seem as if Patel is so dumb that he would put this into the political bloodstream without having an actual whistleblower? Does Kash seem like like a checkers player or does Schiff seem like a lying weirdo?
“Does it seem as if Patel is so dumb that he would put this into the political bloodstream without having an actual whistleblower?”
Have you seen Patel? He looks like he’s permanently surprised by the fact that he’s the FBI director. He looks like an idiot all the time. That goofy look doesn’t help him with trying to look serious.
Trump has been a proven liar for decades. He’s a convicted felon found guilty of lying on business records. Why should we be trusting a convicted felon?
“He’s a convicted felon found guilty of lying on business records. Why should we be trusting a convicted felon?”
Nobody cares. Why don’t you call up President Harris at the White House, ask her how much people care? The number is 202-456-1414
Have you seen Schiff? He looks like he’s permanently surprised by the fact that he’s a senator. He looks like an idiot all the time. That goofy look doesn’t help him with trying to look serious.
What kind of moron would vote for a proven liar like Schiff?
Read the Just The News report. The whole thing. And then you can see how and why your conspiracy theory falls apart.
Just the news is already a biased news source. One source is not always going to be reliable. Remember, it was Patel and Bongino who peddled the Epstein files release because they deeply believed the conspiracies surrounding them. Now that they are in a position to see for themselves they are pretty quiet about it. Why should Patel be trusted with this claim? He can’t bring himself to be open about the Epstein files and the sudden change of heart about the conspiracies. Now we this “scandal” that benefits his boss? Even professor Turley is highly skeptical of the claim.
Just The News has the FD-302 documents: https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2025-08/Democratic%20HPSCI%20Staffer%20-%20FBI%20Interview%20Notes.pdf Patel was not director of the FBI at the time.
But the New York Times, now there’s a reputable rag! When are they going to return their fake Pulitzer for their fake reporting on the non-existent Russia hoax?
“Epstein file scandal”! Bless your heart.
Patel is doing everything by the book in accordance with the Susan Rice memo.
Perhaps a bit deeper dive into the history behind friendship between Ed Buck and Adam Schiff is warranted. Dead meth heads tell no tales
I certainly am no fan of Schiff, but I find this hard to believe. Schiff `is in my opinion a piece of scum that would not hesitate to leak this type of information, but the man is not stupid. Hard to believe that he would make these statements
in a staff meeting with with so many witnesses giving those people a hammer to hold over his head-it is the District of Corruption after all.
Schiff is dumb enough to go on many broadcasts saying “I am holding evidence of Russian collusion” while not actually having such evidence. Would an intelligent sane man say such a thing when not actually having said evidence?
I am still waiting sciff`s russia russia collusion information.
“I am still waiting sciff`s russia russia collusion information.”
I wouldn’t hold your breath.
As much as I believe lying, shifty Schiff should be locked up, I don’t believe he’s so stupid as to call an all-staff meeting to announce they all were going to commit a serious federal crime. But then again it is the same POS that repeatedly lied about having damning double-secret, super-extraordinary, SCIF-Schiff level intel on President Trump. So yeah, investigate that $hit.
OLLY,
If you read the entirety of the Just The News report, Schiff was supposedly promised the Director of the CIA position if Clinton won. Knowing that possibility, I could see Schiff doing some really dumb things.
Also of note, in the report and the whistelblowers interview,
“he was terminated because Schiff’s staff did not believe he had adequate “party loyalty” after he raised concerns about the leaks strategy, the FBI memos show.”
Upstate, I keep telling myself that these people cannot possibly be that stupid. And then they prove me wrong. The lust for power, fame and money is so insatiable it will make them defy the most common of common sense.
Olly: I do not know if you were a trial litigator, but if I had seen him in a jury pool, I would first notice the smugness in his facial expressions; the supercilious expression that tells you he would work magic to convince other jury members of whatever he felt the conclusion should be. I do not think he is stupid or of low intelligence at all, as others have suggested. I agree with you that he is an intelligent, cunning and dishonest fox.
No, not a trial litigator. It is fascinating to watch how unabashedly Schiff, Brennan, Clinton, Clapper and so many others will lie. Violations of an oath of office should have National Security level repercussions. I suggest dropping them onto San Clemente Island with the provisions allowed on the series Alone. No tapping out for at least 6 months.
I generally disagree with almost anything advocated by Schiff. Maybe I’m wrong, but this seems complicated and iffy.
Assuming that Schiff in fact lied, doesn’t prosecution require some proof that his action resulted in harm to national security?
Why wouldn’t any misstatement or even overt lies by a member of Congress thus be protected by the Speeches and Debates Clause?
A member of the Intel Committee cannot leak.
“While this only the unverified allegation of a single former staffer, the alleged conduct would involve criminal and unethical conduct of the highest order, if proven.“
Fake news, total witch hunt, Schiff Derangement Syndrome, they’re eating cats and dogs.
President Epstein is really throwing every distraction against the wall.
When the walls come tumbling down, when the walls come tumbling tumble. It was the night before indictments and all was quiet in Hooville, why you could cut the fear with a knife…
Hey everyone, look who is still beating the Epstein drum after not mentioning him once in 4 years.
Why would Trump be concerned with the Democrat Epstein issue? All of Epstein’s buds were fellow Democrats. He’s your tar baby.