Washington D.C. is a town so filled to the brim with disreputable, scummy creatures that stand in any hallway of the Capitol Building, one could reach out (with gloves on) and conceivably poke one as it slimes by.
So many who try so hard to distinguish themselves from the mucky Swamp crowd that it could be hard to pick an overachiever.
Watching the result of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's revelations, among others, has led to a fun kind of pastime involving guessing who sweats next and how much.
Like Senator Mark Warner of Virginia. Now, for one thing, this horse-faced John-Kerry light clone isn't in possession of any autopen pardon. which has made this current squirming even more fun.
OFF WITH HER HEAD!!!
Says Senator Warner.
Funny YOU should mention that, replies the Data Republican.
Hello Senator Warner,
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) August 7, 2025
You sound nervous.
You told us that your lead role in the Congressional investigation into Russia interference was "the most serious undertaking of your public life." (Receipts attached.) That you were defending democracy itself.
And now the… pic.twitter.com/W6JIjY4YSp
...And now the disinformation looks like it came from inside the house. (Maybe your own?)
Tulsi Gabbard is doing what your committee refused to do: declassify the paper trail. The IC memos, the Brennan notes, the internal warnings about the credibility of the Steele dossier.
So I get why you're rattled.
You insisted that questioning the narrative was tantamount to aiding the Kremlin. You said Comey's firing made the investigation more urgent. But you were silent when it turned out Comey’s team ran surveillance on a U.S. campaign with doctored evidence.
And now here comes Gabbard, showing us that the “Russian op” is a political cover story laundered through the IC with full knowledge of the Clinton campaign, and a green light from people you still call colleagues.
f you truly believe in national security, you'd welcome this review. But instead, you're panicking.
Here's the truth:
You're not calling for Tulsi Gabbard's removal because she's a threat to national security.
You're calling for her removal because she's a threat to yours.
Lawyer up.
Oh, the leaky, leaky, leakies (not a Hawaiian side dish) are getting so freaky.
But in any discussion of D.C. scuzzes, Adam Schiff, congressman turned senator and holder of a precious, phony autopen Get-Out-of-Jail-Free pardon, must take precedence. He has been lying longer and with more bald-faced, bug-eyed audacity than any breathing evil soul in that building.
Earlier this week, he and his legal team spent time pooh-poohing the criminal referral and subsequent investigation for mortgage loan fraud announced by the Justice Department. It's been looked at in prior campaigns before, is their rejoinder. And Schiff's excuse so far is not that he didn't do it, but that everyone does it, which makes it a matter of no consequences in his eyes. Merely a vehicle for Trump's retribution, earning him the victim status he desperately wants.
Schiff is now in the news for something entirely different but totally and completely something we all could have envisioned - in fact, probably already knew but couldn't prove.
Adam Schiff is accused of leaking false information to damage President Trump, his associates, and even members of the media who did not slobber over Adam Schiff.
GET OUT OF DODGE!
Nope, serious. And whoda thunk, right? The bulging-eyed liar constantly mouthing, 'I've seen evidence that will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt [insert dire dirty deed for Trump]...' was a feature on so many evening newscasts and weekend opinion shows that we can all do pretty dead-on impressions if we were that hard up.
Schiff has also been very fond of whistleblowers in the past, whatever fantastic tale they told. Be it Bunsen Honeydew look-alike traitor Alexander Vindman or some anon in the intel community supposedly who only trusted Schiff to get 'the truth' out, Schiff paraded them or their 'secrets' like captives through Rome to expose, flaunt, and cement 'evidence' of Trump's supposed wickedness.
FBI Director Kash Patel, doing his own set of rummaging, has come across a whistleblower whose testimony didn't make it to the national news, because it was about Schiff. The report of the former intelligence staffer on Schiff's targeted and intentional leaking campaign was filed with the FBI eight years ago...and buried, because Schiff believed he was protected under the Constitutional clause for 'speech and debate.'
We found it. We declassified it.
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) August 12, 2025
Now Congress can see how classified info was leaked to shape political narratives - and decide if our institutions were weaponized against the American people. pic.twitter.com/PCpLFLuPmI
Heads should roll, and no pinhead more than Adam Schiff's.
A career 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 — considered the classified leaking to be "unethical," "illegal," and “treasonous,” but was told not to worry about it because Schiff believed he would be spared prosecution under the Constitution's speech and debate clause.
...In his most recent interview with the bureau in 2023, the whistleblower, whose name is redacted, told agents from the FBI's St. Louis office that he personally attended a meeting at which Schiff authorized leaking classified information.
"When working in this capacity, [redacted staffer's name] was called to an all-staff meeting by SCHIFF," the interview report said. "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 told investigators that he "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," the 2023 interview report stated.
It was a leaking conspiracy of epic proportions within Schiff's staff, at Adam Schiff's direction and under his control.
The statute of limitations for a single leak is determined by level of classification violated by the leak.
— Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) August 12, 2025
For the top stuff, especially if an espionage case can be made - that is, the person made the leak exchange for payment/s or favors?
The SOL is a LOT longer than 5 years.
...So even if the Russia-collusion-hoax leaks against Trump are more than five years old and beyond the statute of limitations for prosecution, the conspiracy itself remains prosecutable so long as someone took steps to further it, which is almost certainly the case. Perhaps even more damning is that the FBI/DOJ knew about this elaborate leak operation and let it slide simply because it targeted Trump. That part must be pursued just as aggressively as the Schiff side of the case.
FBI/DOJ let the accusations slide on the flimsiest of suppositions, because 'Trump.' It hurt Trump, and that was more beneficial than ending Schiff's corruption.
Unforgivable. Unconscionable. Un-American.
Steve Scalise, the member from Louisiana, laid out on the House floor what his former scummy colleague was doing while in the House and chairman of a House committee, collecting over 3500 pages of ILLEGALLY OBTAINED PHONE RECORDS of press and House members.
Rep. Steve Scalise told Congress that Adam Schiff possessed over 3,500 pages of illegally obtained phone records, targeting members of the press and even fellow lawmakers.
— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) August 12, 2025
Scalise says Schiff selectively leaked this information for what he called treasonous political gain. pic.twitter.com/C7goeBPebp
I can't believe someone from Congress hasn't accosted this slimy weasel in the hallway already.
As Professor Turley notes (and the rest of us, unlike the DOJ/FBI of those eight years, can see), this is a crime.
I don't even need a bug-eyed traitor pie chart.
...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.
Schiff's pardon is for work connected to the J-6 show tribunal.
He's going to have to do some gymnastics to wiggle out of this, especially when they start hauling staffers, former FBI and DOJ employees, and maybe even the mucky mucks for those bureaus in.
We all knew he was a liar. I'm not sure we knew his truly soulless, evil roots went so deep, though.
Ripping them out is going to be cathartic and a real pleasure.
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