“Adam Schiff lied to the American people, and during my time as CIA director and secretary of State, I know that he leaked classified information that had been provided to him,” Pompeo alleged duri…
, accusing the California Democrat of leaking classified information when he was on the panel.
“Adam Schiff lied to the American people, and during my time as CIA director and secretary of State, I know that he leaked classified information that had been provided to him,” PompeoPompeo, who served on the Intelligence Committee with Schiff when he represented Kansas in Congress, said that McCarthy was “exactly right” to boot the California Democrat, and he argued that Schiff’s tenure as chairman on the panel “almost ruined that committee.
Pompeo added that as secretary of state, he was troubled by Schiff’s behavior and didn’t feel comfortable providing the intel committee information. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praised Kevin McCarthy’s decision to kick Rep. Adam Schiff off the House Intelligence Committee.“When we provided information to him and to his staff, it ended up in places it shouldn’t have been with alarming regularity,” Pompeo explained. “In the end, I decided, I held back information from them as a result.”
“I watched the House Intelligence Committee under the leadership of Adam Schiff. I watched him denigrate and lower its ability to actually perform its function. When he was out talking about the Russia hoax, going on to say that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, knowing that it almost certainly was not,” Pompeo said.Pompeo accused Schiff of leaking classified information when he was on the panel.“This is another patently false and defamatory statement from Mike Pompeo.
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